David Foster Wallace Quotes

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.

Some religions believe that there's a hierarchy, that you don't have a connection, but you must go through the shaman or the priest or whoever the religious leader is. And that's what surprises me, that some people who find a huge value in these kinds of systems also seem to enjoy ILLUSIONS. I can't figure it out.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.

For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.

God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't.

Act of Faith

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

I believe in God. I believe that He's real and I believe He has control over a lot of things and I think throughout history there has been a lot of countries that have turned their back on Him and the result is not great.

Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.

The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

Here's the thing about people who believe in god... They're idiots.

The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.

Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Religion may indeed inspire acts of great kindness and courage. But it also trains people to believe things for which there is no evidence. This makes religion's intrusion into the political sphere all the more troubling.

Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.

I'm an elder in a Presbyterian church. I've taken Scripture seriously. I really do believe, like my more religious colleagues, that religion should be a source of values. If you believe that, for God's sake, act on those values.

I believe that God has opened up these treasures on intelligence to enhance His purposes on the earth.

I believe that Providence would never have allowed us to see the victory of the Movement if it had the intention after all to destroy us at the end.

In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.