Quotes About Belief

But what truth would that be? There were so many to choose from.

we all do what we think is best. Sometimes we make terrible mistakes, sometimes we do the right thing. Sometimes we never know. We just have to hope

How can you dream if you don't have a soul?

I think people see what they want to see... But think about it: if you'd lost someone you love, wouldn't you give almost anything to have the chance to see them again?

Without the outside context of a political war between faith and reason, Epicurus does not fear that any single point he might award to the religious will be used against him. Nor is he eager to have his followers shunning prayer or ritual in order to demonstrate publicly their disbelief. Outside the context of a political war between faith and reason, more nuanced arrangements may be safely undertaken.

It's as if we have lamps but won't plug them in because our ancestors believed electricity was spirit-made. Having lost belief in spirits, we sit in the dark. There's no need. We have holidays and rituals, crafted like tungsten and glass for glowing. We have poems that buzz with electric charge. Let's plug them in.

Wallace Stevens wrote, "After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

The history of doubt is not only a history of the denial of God; it is also a history of those who have grappled with the religious questions and found the possibility of other answers.

Here, new information, new empirical data, led to a direct challenge to the way in which the gods were envisioned. This new doubt encouraged a new kind of punishment for doubt. Set up about 438 BCE, the law against Anaxagoras's atheism held that society must "denounce those who do not believe in the divine beings or who teach doctrines about things in the sky.

Sometimes, Ultraviolet, things feel true to us even if they're not.

Sometimes feel true to us even if they are not.

For the most part, the people are the same. Everyone wants something to believe in. Everyone wants someone to love.

If there was one thing I hated in this world, it was folks who told you that you couldn't do something.

Like most people in the Midwest, Embryo doesn't believe in humor, especially when it pertains to sensitive subjects.

As tough as she is, she wants to believe in something.

Sometimes things feel true to us even if they're not

But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?

Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will.

God resolves all given time

The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form that we expect and demand.

knew where they were and was sure of it even before he

God is God and He lets things happen and that's all there is to it. But He has reasons, and His reasons for something happening would be more important than a man's reason for questioning whatever it might

Jesus," Roland said, not meaning the little Cuban but the other Jesus.

You're pretty sure we're going to Yuma.