Sam Harris Quotes

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

I was baptised a Catholic and, although I'm not a churchgoer now, I do have a strong sense of the integrity of doing what you believe to be true.

I have a very strong spiritual base.

I just pray to God and make sure I'm good with God.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Religion is one of the most important forces in the world. Whether you are a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, or a Hindu, religion is a great force, and it can help one have command of one's own morality, one's own behavior, and one's own attitude.

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

My faith guides my life.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

Faith is important to me.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

There's been so much rhetoric in the past decade about how important religion is to being a good person, for people to say they don't believe in God.

Religion to me really means ethical systems.

To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.