William Jennings Bryan Quotes

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.

I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.

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.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

I don't believe in miracles.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

At no point do I ever remember taking religion very seriously or even feeling that the biblical stories were any different from fairy stories. Certainly, none of it made any sense. By comparison, the world in which I lived, though I might not always understand it in all aspects, always made a lot of sense.

I'm really a skeptic. I'm kind of not a believer in the paranormal.

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.

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

If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.

Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

One does not question a miracle.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.