Quotes about Belief
Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.
— Thomas a Kempis
The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.
— Al Gore
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
— Thomas Jefferson
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.
— John F. Kennedy
No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.
— AW Tozer
I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.
— Barack Obama
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
— CS Lewis
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.
— William James
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
— William James
Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.
— Wendell Berry
Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.
— David Platt