John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes

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

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.

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

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.

The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.

What kind of believer are you? Do you believe IN God?. Or do you believe God? There is a major distinction. People who believe in God, simply acknowledge the existence of a Higher Power. People who believe God believe Him enough to do what He says.

Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.

Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens; if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.

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.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.