Believer Quotes
118 quotes
"You are stronger than you know."
"The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith."
"To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell."
"Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It’s time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love."
"In the beginning there was the Word. Then we broke it."
"In women he doesn't trust! He is an atheist."
"I am nothing but a ripped fabric stitched together by God's grace."
"Our daily prayer ought to be: Please universe, help me help myself and help me show others how to help themselves."
"Sometimes you like to keep things bottled up, but that is not the best policy."
"Be a source of motivation wherever you are as a believer"
"Of course, I am religious.I worship love."
"Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for some"
"Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men"
"Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds"
"Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie"
"Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?"
"Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in"
"Give me something to worship whatever.” Cries the human soul"
"Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity."
"Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be"
"There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom"
"Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's"
"One man's faith is considered idolatry by another"
"Apologetics=faith is weak, lets defend it"
"Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors."
"The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live"
"You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full."
"A spiritual realm is more obedient than a temporal one. In a spiritual realm, people obey the Supreme Being through his priests; in a temporal realm people don't obey wholeheartedly as they distrust their corrupt officials."
"If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do, you will worship Him wholeheartedly. You will praise him with thanksgiving. If you believe He is angry against you, you will come to him with fear and trying to appease his anger. And you don't know when His anger will be over. Such a god keeps you in a perpetual psychological anguish. That is the typical kind of god we usually worship. That is the typical god approved by authority."
"Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world"
"God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him on that level they are all equal"
"What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope."
"Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power and claim it for god. God does not seek power, he is already powerful."
"No holy book is more inspired than the other. They are all inspired according to their gods."
"Anyone can write a holy book, if he feels god is calling him to do so"
"No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costs"
"It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must continue our search or recognize our ignorance"
"All religions are "revealed" and "inspired". After all nothing happens without the "will" of god."
"If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet"
"Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves those delusions keep their day running."
"An atheist is a disappointed true believer he is an angry and hungry soul who has failed to find a real god to whom he can anchor his hope"
"All religions are man-made God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody."
"When you have doubts about God, the right position to take is agnosticism, atheism is outright arrogance"
"The more time you invest into studying religion, the more likely you are to disbelieve in the gods"
"Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story"
"There is no difference between ancient and modern paganism. Christianity has five gods: three that band together against one who apparently has managed to stand his ground for millennia, and a mother of god who is worshiped at the same level as the other members of the quadrinity"
"On close analysis, it would seem that there is a possibility that we are god's robots"
"I believe only in one God, creator of everything that exists, visible and invisible, good and evil. I believe that he will ultimately save every soul and give it eternal life."
"Yes an atheist priest can perfectly minister to a believing congregation and miracles can happen in that congregation. Miracles depend on the faith of the believer, not that of the officiant. A bartender who never takes alcohol can serve alcohol to his clients. What is necessary is that the priest believes he is doing the good work. The congregation needs faith and it helps them. It would be evil to deny them such a service in the name of his lack of faith. - Bangambiki Habyarimana"
"We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife."
Showing 50 of 118 quotes