William Robertson Smith Quotes

I believe religion is important for every person.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

I know God is real.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

As for me, I've been in love with women and men. I get how people fall in love with different kinds of people, but to fall in love with God: I didn't get that.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

I believe in God. It's a big part of my life. You can bring it up and talk about it without being 'Christian Rocker.'

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

I think there's a difference between God and religion.

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.