Convulsions Quote by David Hume

From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.

— Alejo Carpentier

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes…

— Albert Ellis

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at…

— Baruch Spinoza

Fear and doubts paralyze the mind. Faith and courage empowers you for greatness.

— Ore Abayomi

“The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The working of miracles is old and out-dated; to teach the people is too laborious; to interpret scripture is to invade the prerogative of…

— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which…

— William Ellery Channing

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the…

— John Henry Newman

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Religion has had the disastrous effect of placing vitally important concepts, such as morality, happiness and love, in a supernatural realm inaccessible to man’s…

— George H. Smith

“The tendency to turn human judgements into divine commands turns religion into one of the most dangerous forces in the world.”

— Georgia Harkness