Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves.

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you from asking the questions.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Faith is the antithesis of proof. The two cannot co-exist. Where one is found, the other is absent.

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen - and the enemy of things known.