Quotes About Faith

Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?

As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.

I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.

Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.