Quotes About Belief

The King of Crows raked his fingers across the dark until it bled. He licked the blood from his fingers with a forked tongue. "People will believe anything, you know. You only need them to be frightened enough.

People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can surprise you.

For the last time, I'm not a witch." Miss Lillian smiled and patted Theta's cheek. "Keep telling yourself that, dear.

Well, now, you see, I have a firm policy that I never drink hot cocoa by myself. It's against my religion. You have a religion? Ling sniffled. Well, no. Not really. But if I did, that would be the first commandment.

There's nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.

People will believe anything it it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

But as he listened to the moans and cries of those around him, he understood that hope was not a concept of faith meant to bring man closer to God but one of denial and delusion meant to keep him from accepting that God did not exist.

she was sure that all those things she'd been taught abut feeling shame were wrong. It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body. You were only as cursed as you allowed yourself to be.

When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

There is no meaning but what we assign. We create our own reality. I can live with that.

Little Warrior: You can do this. I believe you can.

Trust me: If God exists, he'll know I'm faking it.

I don't go for the bogeyman. There's plenty of evil to fight in life without having to make up devils and demons and ghosts. If you believe that there is Evil in the world, capital E, doesn't that take away your belief in free will? I still maintain that people have choices. To do right. To have hope. To give hope

There's nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right

People will believe anything if it means they can go on living their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

Just because I believe in science doesn't mean I ignore superstition. Sometimes there's a basis for those superstitions.

She was only herself. Her one weapon was her fierce belief that ordinary people could come together and make a better world.

This country is founded on a certain tension." He pressed his fists against each other. "There is a dualism inherent in democracy—opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to create this country. But this balance takes a great deal of energy—and, as I've said, spirits are attracted to energy.

Well, now, you see, I have a firm religion that I never drink hot cocoa by myself. It's against my religion. You have a religion? Ling sniffled. Well, no. Not really. But if I did, that would be the first commandment.

Octavia might've believed that it was the Devil's business, not the Lord's, but it seemed to Memphis that if there was a God, it would be downright cruel of him to bestow people with certain talents and then expect them not to use those talents. People had to be who they were.

La línea entre la fe y el fanatismo está en constante movimiento -respondió el profesor- ¿Cuándo se convierte la fe en justificación? Cuándo se transforma el derecho en lógica y la cruzada en delito?

My aunt says you should only pray to Jesus. Blind Bill grunted and spat. You think the white folks' god is gonna help you? You think he's on our side? I don't think anybody's god is on our side.

Mabel's parents had said that it was bigotry dressed up to look like science.

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity,'" Memphis quoted. "W. B. Yeats. 'The Second Coming.