Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

I am a Catholic.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Look 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.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Every 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.

Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they’re not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.