James Fenimore Cooper Quotes

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

My faith guides my life.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

I try to act out of faith.

Man makes holy what he believes.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.