Faith Quotes

"Faith is the choice to believe despite compelling reasons not to."

"Faith is believing in the resurrection of possibility."

"Religion is a human cultural phenomenon, explicable without supernatural intervention."

"Belief in God can be explained by cognitive biases without invoking theism."

"Religion addresses human concerns that science does not answer."

"The natural law is written in the hearts of all men, if they would only read it."

"The modern world has lost the sense of the sacred."

"The modern world's great tragedy is the loss of sense of the transcendent."

"Faith is not certainty, but the courage to believe in what cannot be proven."

"Faith is not gullibility; it is the trust that the universe is fundamentally benevolent."

"If all the world were Christian, it might be so ordered."

"Trust in God, but tie your camel."

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for."

"The problem of evil becomes less mysterious when we recognize human limitations and frailty."

"A man can be a resolute follower of the Buddha and yet remain a Western man."

"I became a Christian at about the age of fifteen."

"In matters of the spirit, we must not think in images."

"Faith is not belief in impossibility but trust in possibility."

"If all the arguments which religious people employ in defence of their faith are to be of the kind that I have been considering, then it seems plain that the dispute is quite hopeless."

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."

"There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a myth of the very old religions."

"I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am convinced that they do good."

"The moment you have a reason for believing something, you cease to believe it."

"I am not a Christian. I don't believe in God and in immortality."

"I believe in the God of Spinoza, who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of all being, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings."

"Religions make the same claims about the world. But most of them can't both be true. As a matter of logic, at most one of them can be true."

"Organized Christianity has always been the deadly enemy of moral progress."

"An ancient saying: The man who fears God is afraid of nothing else, whereas the man who fears not God is afraid of everything."

"We have in fact lost that which all religions agree in teaching, that we are made in the image of God."