Margaret Cavendish Quotes

I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow.

The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.

God is very important to me. I love her.

Abortion is an issue between a woman and her God.

It is and has of long time been our constant sense and opinion that conscience ought not to be constrained, nor people forced in matters of religion.

True believers must embrace their faith of their own free will - not because it was imposed, or inherited, or part of the dominant local culture. To become a believer under pressure or coercion isn't true belief.' This also means that the believer must ... remain free to leave his faith.

I'm accountable to my God, and I haven't done anything I'm embarrassed of.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way

Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.

In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right.

Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.

A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order