Jane Hawking Quotes

I understand that not everyone shares my faith and some find it difficult to reconcile with their own beliefs.

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

I respect people of faith, but I'm not one.

I will tell you that I'm not religious.

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

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

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

I'm not a religious person at all.

I respect religion and will respect any religion.

I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

I don't think you need religion.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.

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 enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.