Quotes on Belief In God

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals or the purposes pursued by society than belief or disbelief in God.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God by organizing together as a community to do good. Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.

Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in god. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed.

Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.

The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.