Quotes About Belief

fiction works because a part of the mind forgets that it's fiction while we're reading it.

If you are lying, you have built your lie on true foundations.

Faith and fear, they tell me, can't coexist. I try to practice by doing what I'm afraid to do, and I manage (now and then, anyway) by means of faith. Faith that I will do myself more good than harm by the risks I am willing to take as a writer. And faith, finally, that the best service I can do myself is to do the best and most honest work of which I am capable.

Oh, I don't believe in anything. I especially don't believe in astrology. Know why?" "Why?" "Because I'm a Saggitarius, and every Sagittarius knows astrology is a lot of hooey.

thought of the classic definition of a Unitarian:

What do you believe? You never say anything. At the most you sometimes laugh.

The most tender, the most tragic of illusions is perhaps to believe that our actions can add or subtract from the total quantity of good and evil in the world.

God neither created us nor wished us to be created, but that we are the work of an inferior deity, a Demiurge, who wrongly believed himself to be God? Heavens, how probable it seems; and this overweening hubris has been handed on down to our children.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

Most people in America don't believe that "God" is a dirty word, but the sad fact is that some Americans are left to wonder whether the Supreme Court might have greater regard for it if it was.

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.

How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation.

It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen

I know people who believe in ghosts but don't believe in themselves. It's kind of sad. Okay you don't think you'll ever make it as a musician, but last night you saw a translucent caveman.