Terry Jones Quotes

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

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

I don't think you'll ever hear me invoking God in anything I do.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

Religion is all bunk.

Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.

I was never religious.

My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

What does that mean - you're religious? Everybody is religious.

I don't pray. I'm not a deeply religious person.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

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

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.