Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

The core of all religions is a belief in a supreme personal god.

I don't let my religious world get too complicated.

Human beings are religious animals.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.

I've always been a religious guy, but not overly religious. I've always believed in God and Jesus. I pray.

The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.

I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them.

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

Religion can thrive only in a personal universe.

I'm not a religious person, but I read the Bible many years ago.

I think that all the powerful religions are pretty much the same. People like to pretend they are very different, but they are not. They are really about believing in something bigger than yourself, something that's unseen, and about having some faith.

I was never really into any kind of hard-core religious structure or dogma.

I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

All religions have been made by men.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

My religion lies in my composition.