Religious belief Quotes

We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.

— Barack Obama

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

— Richard Dawkins

All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.

— Mike Dirnt

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

— Richard Rohr

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

— Thomas Jefferson

My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed.

— Stonewall Jackson

I'm joyful in my religious belief.

— George W. Bush

I have a very deep religious belief.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.'

— William Murchison

Remember this: Beliefs divide, values unite. When we go to the values that underlie so many religious beliefs, they unite us.

— Deepak Chopra

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

— Robert Breault

I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

— Thomas Jefferson

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

— E. O. Wilson

I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that…

— Michael Newdow

Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as its ethical standpoint.

— Hassan Rouhani

I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I…

— Barack Obama

The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result…

— William Bennett

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you…

— Jimmy Carter

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot…

— Josh McDowell

It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the…

— Richard Dawkins

Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for…

— Adolf Hitler

Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to…

— Hillary Clinton

There're a lot of old religious beliefs that keep us stuck. Because we're afraid of the answers, a lot of us just…

— Echo Bodine

In my platoon, we came from different parts of the country, with different backgrounds, different religious beliefs, different political beliefs—and yet we…

— Seth Moulton

I support the rights of all people to practice their religious beliefs privately, but I oppose the idea of respecting religions. In…

— Taslima Nasrin

I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should…

— Martin Rees

With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits…

— Antonin Scalia

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor…

— Charles Darwin

The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to…

— Ravi Zacharias

Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have…

— Richard Dawkins

If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd,…

— Reza Aslan

A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the…

— Anthony de Mello

“Diversity of opinion in religious belief and its mode is not incompatible with equal possession of the essentials of pure faith, nor…

— John Daniel

“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which…

— Sigmund Freud

Two things have been bothering me for a long time. The first is the tendency of people in general - and that…

— Greg Koukl

“Your frequent claim that we must understand religious belief as a “social construct,” produced by “societal causes,” dependent upon “social and cultural…

— Sam Harris

If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine,…

— Mary Griffith

An interesting thing about the religious people who run Iran is that one of their problems with Ahmadinejad, who they thought would…

— Hooman Majd

“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to…

— Edward O. Wilson