Belief Quote by Allegra Goodman

It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers only if…

— Allen W. Wood

Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that…

— Garry Wills

I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as…

— Salman Rushdie

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

— Alain de Botton

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of…

— Jon Meacham

My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing…

— Madhur Bhandarkar

I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it.…

— Julianna Baggott

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

— Don Cupitt

Oftentimes, when I was reporting on conflict somewhere in the world or prison or wherever I might be, I'd be struck by the fact…

— Lawrence Wright

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

— Eric Hoffer

The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity

— Donald Morgan

Religion, if it is genuine, is so profoundly interwoven with individual thought and experience that it is no more exhaustible than consciousness itself. And…

— Marilynne Robinson