Quotes about Belief
Sure, Christianity is a world religion and I don't deny that. But having said that, this is, when it is all said and done, a relationship with God.
— Greg Laurie
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
— Dorothy Day
I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.
— Tertullian
Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.
— John Mott
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.
— Albert Einstein
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
— Cicero
Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?
— Thomas Watson
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
— John Adams
There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.
— Ayn Rand
What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.
— Frank Herbert
Adversity reminds men of religion.
— Livy
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
— Laurence Sterne