Religious Faith Quotes

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

John McCain has not spoken about my Muslim faith.

My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

I've met people of great faith. I sat in the home of Billy Graham and in the residence of Cardinal Dolan and prayed with these men of God.

I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.

I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it one thousand times. This confidence in God's grace and knowledge of it makes men glad and bold and happy in dealing with God and with all creatures; and this is the work of the Holy Ghost in faith.

The Church not only prescribes for her children to obey state power regardless of the convictions and faith of its bearers, but also prays for it.

I contend that the reason why America is not as happy as it was in 1950 or 1920 or whenever, 100 years ago, is because our priorities are wrong, but it has nothing to do with exploiting the planet and has everything to do with losing faith in God.

If someone dies as a child, they go to heaven. But, as an adult, he made a choice of accepting Christianity, so, that's not apostacy. If he was a Muslim as an adult, then changed, that would be apostacy.

My religion is very important to me.

I … do swear, in the presence of My Brethren and by the Cross of St. Peter and of our Blessed Lady that I will Aid and Support Our Holy Religion by Destroying the Hereticks and as far as my power & property will Go not one Shall be excepted …

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

It's questionable whether I believe in God or Jesus but I do believe in a spiritual world and some kind of afterlife.

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge; this, I take it, is the reason why Christians are distinguished from the rest of the world, not by faith, nor by charity, nor by the other fruits of the Holy Spirit, but solely by their opinions, inasmuch as they defend their cause, like everyone else, by miracles, that is by ignorance, which is the source of all malice; thus they turn a faith, which may be true, into superstition.

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.