Quotes about Religion

I believe because it is absurd.

Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.

Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.

Religion, then, is not limited to our relation to God, but embraces, our neighbour as well.

I have a Bible near my bed.

I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.

I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian.

Jean Paul Sartre: "I needed God . . . I reached out for religion, I longed for it, it was the remedy. Had it been denied me, I would have invented it myself.

Why do we say, "That's true for you but not for me," when we're talking about morality or religion, but we never even think of such nonsense when we're talking to a stock broker about our money or a doctor about our health?

We should certainly honor the principle that all people are equal in God's sight and entitled to equal protection of the laws as well as fair, courteous, and respectful treatment. But there is no moral imperative that we adopt the notion that all belief systems are equally true. There is a moral imperative that we do not.