Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Blaise PascalI regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Stephen HawkingThe voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
Alexander HamiltonThe only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
Muhammad AliThe word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.
Isaac NewtonFaith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.
Joel OsteenIf I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAny religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.
Joel OsteenReligion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund BurkeI am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.
Jimmy CarterThe word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Friedrich NietzscheEvery religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.
Russell M. NelsonThe most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. MenckenBecause I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.
Ayrton SennaFaith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
VoltaireIf some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense. I am just one human being.
Dalai LamaFaith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Oscar WildeI believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘
Kamala HarrisA lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.
Christopher HitchensIn this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.
Pope FrancisThe humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.
David BowieLook for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
C. S. LewisWe are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel JohnsonI don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.
Dolly PartonBack in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.
Kurt VonnegutWhether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Dalai LamaReligion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.
Pope FrancisI was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.
Billy GrahamThere are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘
C. S. LewisTo be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinAs I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.
Billy GrahamThe Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinLet us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George WashingtonI do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
J. ColeIt is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma GandhiThe only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert HubbardWe like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
Blaise PascalIt is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mahatma GandhiI used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.
Mr. TI maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI confused things with their names: that is belief.
Jean-Paul SartreReligion is compulsory in English schools, you know.
Christopher HitchensI sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas JeffersonThe number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
James MadisonIt is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
H. L. MenckenCapitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawEvery man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
Wayne DyerI love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Khalil GibranIn the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
Jordan PetersonFear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellI never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas JeffersonThe word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.
Carl JungI believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.
Richard M. NixonI have always believed in God.
Joel OsteenNo man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.
Robert Baden-PowellI am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!
Joyce Meyer