Faith Quote by Adam Nicolson

“Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at…

— John Ortberg Jr

“Wherever I found religion in my life I found strife, the attempt of one individual or group to rule another in the name of…

— Richard Wright

“And here, though it makes an odd sound, yet it is necessary to say, that whoever professes himself a member of the Church of…

— Jonathan Swift

“We see insurmountable multitudes obeying, in opposition to their strongest passions, the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive, and the crimes of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sometimes it was difficult to accept the terrible lengths people would go to for their beliefs, particularly when they fooled themselves into thinking they…

— Anna Lee Huber

“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.…

— Mark Twain

“Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit a kingdom for it was to small a bound.…

— William Shakespeare

“the religion which treats its flock as a credulous plaything offers one of the cruelest spectacles that can be imagined: a human being in…

— Christopher Hitchens

“From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in…

— Patricia J. Williams

“So they stood upon the shores of Faith and felt the old dogmas and certainties ebbing away rapidly under their feet and between their…

— David Lodge

“In that ugly building, amidst that weary praying and inharmonious singing, with that blatant tone, and, worse than all, that merciless doctrine, there was…

— George MacDonald

“Abruptly, with the shock of the Conquest, the sober and puritanical man of the Christian Inquisition encountered, through their violent and upsetting nature, peoples…

— Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio