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A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held. — Don Cupitt

The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true. — John Warwick Montgomery

Religious doctrines ... are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them. — Sigmund Freud

Human brain is structured to avoid any kind of refutation of one's religious beliefs. — Abhijit Naskar

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

God is great.
God is glorious. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs. — John Frusciante

He claimed to be an atheist, but he always used religious symbolism ... — Walter J. Moore

The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive. — Walter Rauschenbusch

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. — Frances Wright

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. — Mortimer Adler

The religious belief varies from village to village. Nearly all worship the cholera and smallpox deities, and there are traces of serpent worship. — Paul Theroux

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time. — Gary Malone

Jesus is the Heir of God.
We are joint-heirs of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We live in a world where you can be put to death for your belief and shows how humanity judges in a dreadful motif. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. — Ann Patchett

When I remove the layers that say I can't, I discover a burning ember that says I should, I can, and I will. — Charles F. Glassman

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

Today, in the West, there are no good excuses for religious belief - unless we think that ignorance, reaction, and sentimentality are good excuses. — Martin Amis

The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive. — Luke Rhinehart

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects. — Alan Moore

Christianity is a knowledge and not a faith based religious belief system. One must have a peg on which to hang ones hat-of-faith. — R. Alan Woods

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

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it. — William James

I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious. — Clive Sinclair

God is magnificent.
God is mighty. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am no Patriot for I try to breathe in with the steadfast belief that my country is the Earth and my religion is Humanism. — K. Hari Kumar

I don't assign myself to the names of any religious or non religious groups I prefer my actions and beliefs to be manic or marvelous just like me — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity. — Richard Rohr

I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me. — Christopher Hitchens

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

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

Debt ... that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force. — Margaret Atwood

There is no danger than doubt. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We can love and do righteous acts only by grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In response to a letter regarding the writer's lack of religious belief:
The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty. — Abigail Van Buren

Renew your mind with word of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

God is the Father of light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Qualia of God have paramount potential to alter your body chemistry through mind-body substrates of neurobiology. — Abhijit Naskar

Religious belief does not do away with either natural or human law from which sovereignty is derived. — Timothy Brook

I think that our experiences are quite often colored by our cultural and religious beliefs. — Rosemary Ellen Guiley

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

Religious patients seemed to differ little from those without a religion. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem. — Eric Maskin

We are members of God's family. One faith, one hope and one baptism. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. — Martin Amis

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

Our religious understanding and beliefs should evolve just like everything else. — James Cook

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

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief. — Karen Maitland

when knowledge is available, belief is unnecessary. There is no religious belief expressed because wisdom is superior — Amanda Valiant

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

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

Recognizing that God exists in all of us is the first step toward genuine kindness. — Charles F. Glassman

There're a lot of old religious beliefs that keep us stuck. Because we're afraid of the answers, a lot of us just don't ask the questions of God. — Echo Bodine

There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three. — Frederick Buechner

The society terms the varied paths of achieving the divine bliss as religion. — Abhijit Naskar

Take a pinch of belief in God, add a dash of desire to experience God, stir in emotion to taste, and you have a recipe for religious experience. — Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

I have a very deep religious belief. — Mstislav Rostropovich

I am a religious man! The only thing is, that in my religion, I am the God! — Tunk

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

Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable. — Ann Coulter

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss. — Cesar Nascimento

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

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions. — Sam Harris

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

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage — Peggy Noonan

She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith. — Sage Steadman

The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else. — Abhijit Naskar

Pray regularly for the members of your family. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science. — Nicholas Nassim Taleb

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

Spirit of spirits! — Lailah Gifty Akita

God is a great God. — Lailah Gifty Akita