belief Quotes

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

All money is a matter of belief.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.