Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.

I respect religion and will respect any religion.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

It's no secret that I'm called to a different place, maybe, for some of the beliefs in the LGBTQ community because of my faith. With that said, I'm also called to be accepting and compassionate.

The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

If people want to believe in this god, or that god, that's fine by me, believe away.

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality, holding that as no human being can with certainty say, in the clash and conflict of hostile faiths and creeds, what is truth, or that he is surely in possession of it, so everyone should feel that it is quite possible that another equally honest and sincere with himself, and yet holding the contrary opinion, may himself be in possession of the truth.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don't throw them at me. You are free to worship whoever you want, but other people's beliefs are not your concern, whether they believe that the Messiah is God, son of Mary, or that Satan is God, son of Mary. Let people have their beliefs.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

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

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.