Misguided Faith Quotes

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying "When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.

Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.

You can latch onto theological ideas that are, in fact, not accurate, and refuse to let them go. I think we've seen this a few times in church history.

She loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another's problems before your own. Yet she was beginning to think that she-- along with others-- had taken this belief too far, letting her desire to seem humble become a form of pride itself. She now saw that when her faith had become about clothing instead of people, it had taken a wrong turn.

In matters of religion it is very easy to deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

… an economic crime…. A misapplication of Biblical principles.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

Faith in faith is faith astray.

But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

Nothing is a greater injury to the children of men than to be under the influence of a false spirit, when they think they have the Spirit of God.