Sigmund Freud Quotes

Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or sermons and often it strikes them as being dull or not particularly interesting. Religion may be described in many ways. I like to think of it as a medicine, a healing medicine for the mind.

Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about [...] miracles. [...] And in any case, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.

I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.

I believe in divine intervention.

You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.

The bible says, 'All things are possible.' I believe that.

I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.

If one believes, then miracles occur.

To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof of anything I'm asked to believe.

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.