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Quotes About Faith

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.
~ Bertrand Russell
I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.
~ Mother Teresa
Religion is the opium of the poor
~ Ernest Hemingway
I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
~ Susan B. Anthony
If Jesus came back and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing-up.
~ Woody Allen
[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.
~ Stephen King, Desperation
Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like.
~ Alice Walker
O! I shall soon despair, when I shall seeThat Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.
~ John Donne, Holy Sonnets
One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
~ Voltaire
Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.
~ Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Vision is the end of religion.
~ William Blake
The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.
~ Immanuel Kant
When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
~ Sigmund Freud
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
~ Francis Bacon
As for a future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.
~ Charles Darwin
There is a crack in everything God has made.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If only God would give me a clear sign like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
~ Woody Allen
If I could only see one miracle just one miracle. Like a burning bush or the seas part or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.
~ Woody Allen
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do understand.
~ Mark Twain
The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me.
~ Muhammad Ali
All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!
~ William James
There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.
~ Sir Francis Bacon