Faith Quote by Sam Harris

“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

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

“Religious faith always transcends culture, and is the integrating principle and power of man's cultural striving.”

— Henry R. Van Til

“The fact that religious faith has left its mark on every aspect of our civilization is not an argument in its favor, nor can…

— Sam Harris

“Religion has had a free ride for too long and despite the growing murmurs of malcontents, the societal privilege afforded to faith remains a…

— Noah Lugeons

“While religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction, it is still sheltered…

— Sam Harris

“Religion, whether we like it or not, is intimately tied to the culture in which it exists. One can argue—with only varying degrees of…

— Phyllis Tickle

“Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps…

— Sam Harris

“There still remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from being religious.…

— Harvey Cox

“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“I look at what we call faith, and all I see is superstition and subjugation . . . They create false divisions, and enslave…

— Helene Wecker