Sam Harris Quotes

I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.

The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

I'm a Christian now. The things that drove me crazy growing up was how everyone works at fault-finding with different religions. The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snow boarding and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. I think religion does a lot for us but I can't quite believe it, alas... It's just a personal choice. I love the idea of heaven though. Who doesn't? It's lovely.

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

I don't need faith.

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

I think Mel Gibson could make 'Passion of the Christ' because he really believed in it and gave it his all.

I don't believe in prayer, I'm a pretty hardcore agnostic.

I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not that wise, but neither do I consider there to be anything approaching adequate evidence for such a god. Why are you in such a hurry to make up your mind? Why not simply wait until there is compelling evidence?

I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.

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

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.