Quotes about Religion, Faith, and Beliefs

"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen."

-Michel De Montaigne (Essais, III, xii (1588))

"He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all."

-Henry H. Haskins

"The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays."

-Soren Kierkegaard

"Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things."

-Henry Ward Beecher

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."

-Albert Einstein

"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."

-Henry Ford

"Beware of the man of one book."

-Thomas Aquinas

"Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science."

-Max Planck (Where is Science Going 1932)

"To preach plain and simply is a great art: Christ Himself talks of tilling ground, or mustard seed,&c.; He used altogether homely and simple similitudes."

-Martin Luther

"We are punished by our sins, not for them."

-Elbert Hubbard

"Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief."

-Oscar Wilde

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

-C. S. Lewis

"See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little."

-Pope John XXIII

"The Lord watches over the strangers, he upholds the widow and the fatherless; but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin."

-Psalms 146:9

"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much."

-Jesus, Luke 16:10 NIV

"It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience."

-Martin Luther

"There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart."

-Blaise Pascal

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