Religious Questioning Quotes

There's a moment for everybody when you look at that picture of Jesus in the church and think, 'This doesn't totally make sense.' If God made everything, then who made God? We have no idea.

I wrote 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' right out of my own experiences and my own feelings when I was in sixth grade.

Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may talk about religion as a powerful social force, but unlike other similarly powerful institutions, religion is not to be questioned, criticized or mocked.

Every generation has to ask difficult questions about what does it mean to follow Jesus.

People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.

When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think that's a universal predicament.

If god exists, he is not to be believed in.

I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?