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Quotes About Faith

When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko
~ Orson Scott Card, Magic Street
Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.
~ Giannina Braschi
The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.
~ Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
~ David Mitchell
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
~ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
~ Julianna Baggott, Pure
God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.
~ Rachel Caine, Lord of Misrule
But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.
~ Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards
It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.
~ Bill Gaede
In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.
~ John Green
One mans cult is another mans religion.
~ Annie Parisse
Some kneel and lie to God.
~ Elton John
I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.
~ Tom Perrotta
Religion is a mixed blessing.
~ John Shelby Spong
I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
~ A. J. Jacobs
The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.
~ George H. Smith
Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.
~ Glen Cook
What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.
~ Gillian Anderson
Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
True love is like religion. It is full of devotion and free of doubt.
~ Kedar Joshi