Richard Dawkins Quotes

Why do people stick with their God? That’s what they have.

My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.

I was raised in the church.

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

I come from a good family. I come from a faith-based family.

I was born and raised Catholic.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you believe.

Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.

Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.

I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

The faith I was born into formed me.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.

I'm a strong believer in God. It could be because of my upbringing and my family environment.

Over centuries, we have attached too many meanings to religion.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.

Landscape shapes culture

Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world