Stacey Abrams Quotes

You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics.

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

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

I have to have an emotional connection to what I am ultimately selling because it is emotion, whether you are selling religion, politics, even a breath mint.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

I think people can believe in anything.

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

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

A good deal of the political battle of the future will be a conflict between religion and unbelief:

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the highest form of art that fantasy is an equally important manifestation. It's impossible.

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

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

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

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.