If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you'll find something that is.

Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not.

God is one and there is but one God — all else is but the way the ignorant seek to put Gods into a form they can understand...

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans.

We all need something to believe in. Without those beliefs we're just floating particles moving through the space time continuum.

One must not align himself with the beliefs that limit his thinking; free from all beliefs and superstitions; we all make difference.

Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever.

The interest I have in believing a thing is not a proof of the existence of that thing.[Voltaire's response to Pascal's Wager]

Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts.

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.

People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past every day.

I admire those believers who speak of such things with the same aplomb as if the'd just split a beer with God in the cabin next door.