Religious Belief Quotes

Religious Belief Quote of the day

My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American because of religious doubt - or religious belief.

Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as its ethical standpoint.

I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

I think that our experiences are quite often colored by our cultural and religious beliefs.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason.

Those who are religious or who have any beliefs have so much to choose from.

The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

Everyone seems to be searching and yearning for answers whatever they may be. And that ends up being some kind of spiritual or religious belief.

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

I'm joyful in my religious belief.

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.

The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large, by consensus.

Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

Spirit of spirits!

At its Greek root, "to believe" simply means "to give one's heart to." Thus, if we can determine what it is we give our heart to, then we will know what it is we believe.

I was raised to believe that God speaks in the language of sacrifice, " he told me, "You are expected to sacrifice because it is the measure of the depth of your belief...

The more you keep your religious beliefs concealed from others, the lesser religious conflicts occur in the society.

O Lord my God, revive my soul!

The book-learned preacher who carries the badge of authority, is by no means religious.