Quotes About Belief

You can't change people's irrational beliefs, Mickie. Trust me—I know." I looked at Ernie. "So does Ernie." Ernie glanced at me and nodded. "And that guy, he's not the guy you have to worry about. The ones to worry about are the ones who cloak their discrimination behind some other excuse so you can't call them out.

Everything is going to be okay.

Zarina believed the rumor. Preposterously Russian, each building was grossly

there is nothing so dangerous as a maxim. —C. J. MAY, "Some Rules of Evidence: Reasonable Doubt in Civil and Criminal Cases" (1876)

Her continued devotion in the face of all that had happened amazed me, but at this point I had concluded that I no longer shared her faith in a God who controlled the universe like a puppet master pulling and tugging strings and making us all dance. Our lives, I believed, were more like billiard balls on a pool table, ricocheting randomly with the impact of the cue ball.

I figured if God wasn't going to listen in Vietnam, when I needed him most, I wasn't gonna keep asking.

I've been to hell, and I didn't see any sign of God. After a while you stop looking. You figure it out on your own.

Baptist church, a blur of oscillating white sheets of paper. The persistent

Have faith in God's will." Then she closed her eyes. They would be the last words she ever spoke to me.

hers, then pretended to take a

She believed in a just return for every effort.

Joseph Ratzinger commented that the opening line of the Nicene Creed, Credo in unum Deum (I believe in one God), is a subversive statement because it automatically rules out any rival claimant to ultimate concern. To say that one accepts only the God of Israel and Jesus Christ is to say that one rejects as ultimate any human being, any culture, any political party, any artistic form, or any set of ideas.

No country, leader, political party, culture, civilization, moral ideal, or rival god can compete with the one God.

To say that one accepts only the God of Israel and Jesus Christ is to say that one rejects as ultimate any human being, any culture, any political party, any artistic form, or any set of ideas.

Do you think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth? I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man 'against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law' " (Mt 10:34–36).

Jesus did not urge his disciples to commit their lives to a doctrine, but to a person who was the doctrine, and only as they continued in his Word could they know the truth ( John 8:31–32).

Through their word" he expected others to believe in him ( John 17:20), and these in turn to pass the word along to others, until in time the world might know who he was and what he came to do ( John 17:21, 23).

A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.

That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.

I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply.

The gods of yesterday become the devils of tomorrow.

Now, if this be true, there is no limit to the horror to which mankind may be heir. If this be true, men may be hovering forever on the brink of unthought oceans of supernatural terror, parted from the next world by a thin veil which may be rent, as we have just seen it rent. I would like to believe otherwise -- but...

Gods are no more stable than men.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.