Quotes About Belief

You'd be surprised by how eager true believers are to talk." He smiles. "And if that doesn't work, I'll tell them I'm trying to catch a guy who punched a baby dolphin.

Most belief systems that don't have a central text like the Koran or the Old Testament become extremely pragmatic, adopting whatever else is around if it fits. New Orleans voodoo has a lot of French Catholicism embedded in it, while Brazilian forms have incorporated some of the indigenous beliefs from there.

When no amount of evidence can convince you that your worldview might be inaccurate, then we've exited the realm of reason and entered religious territory.

Even testing a theory and reaching an expected conclusion doesn't really "prove" it in the sense that people think. It only changes the degree of certainty.

We figure that's their

The next time you get into a political discussion, stop and ask yourself what amount of evidence would change your mind. If the answer is none, then realize you're

I committed murder. That doesn't weigh heavily on me. I believe I made the morally correct choice.

Each one helps us understand that our points of view are shaped by what we see, what we've been told, and, lastly, how we process it all.

Science is based on the premise that logic and reason can tell us the true nature of reality. Religion is based on the idea that when logic and reason don't support a predetermined view of reality, they are at fault.

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad. It's why people who would give the shirt off their back to help the poor and the hungry will then march against genetically modified food, even if such food products could save millions of children from blindness or starvation. It's when people who want democracy in the Middle East find themselves building military bases instead of schools

If I were to break a law, it would only be of the kind that are designed to inconvenience. Law, like God, is only real when people believe in it. When you know the truth—that it's really just the good and bad we do to each other that really matters—you see things differently.

It's a childish worldview to choose what to believe and what not to in the face of the evidence. Playing peekaboo with the facts doesn't make them disappear.

I am only half myself. the other side's a dark idea I like to believe in.

No matter how rich, powerful and attractive you might be, everyone at one point or another in their lives asks the same question. "Why me God?

She believes that they are caught in an emotional timewarp without the necessary vision to appreciate the changes that have take place in society.

She had such hope for the future, such belief that he would love, nurture and protect her from the difficulties that lay ahead.

If people wish to love a 7th century preacher more than their own families, that's up to them, but nobody else is obliged to take it seriously.

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself...

We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.

Right from the beginning, I had the sense that whenever he was trying to convince Pin of something, he was really trying to convince himself.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented

Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.

I close my eyes, knowing that afterward we will fall asleep together on our small mattress, as we do every night, listening to the wind in the palm trees outside our window, believing in our thick dreams that we are capable of nothing cruel.

thinking wrongly about God leads us to live wrongly.