Believer Quote by Allen W. Wood

A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And…

— Sam Harris

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across…

— Francis Spufford

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

— John Dewey

The essence of the religious emotions consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by…

— Sam Harris

Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it…

— D. Elton Trueblood

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

— Matthew Arnold

In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to take a…

— Allegra Goodman

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a…

— Amy Waldman

“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone…

— Albert Einstein

“Traditional religious beliefs have been eroded, not so much by humiliating disproofs of their mythologies as by the growing awareness that beliefs are really…

— Edward O. Wilson

“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity ― a…

— Sam Harris