Quotes About Belief

My mother taught me to believe in ghosts: to use a Ouija board, have seances, and leave little offerings out for those who have passed.

My dad passed when I was 6. I found out when I was about 21 that my dad always said acting would be the making of me. Where he got that from, I have no idea.

Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility.

I've always believed there is a better place somewhere. I feel like I'm E.T. and I'm just passing through.

If you don't want to investigate what you're passing judgment on, then it's your fault. And I believe that if people investigate Goldberg as a human being, I'm not such a bad guy.

I think everyone, especially after the passing of a loved one, starts to hope that maybe there will be something better on the other side.

Most people are sincere, because this is the easiest course to take psychologically.

religion has been the historically most widespread and effective instrumentality of legitimation.

exclusivist, pluralist, and inclusivist. The exclusivist position concedes little if anything to the relativizing process: Christianity is reaffirmed in ringing tones as the absolute truth. As one would expect, this position is likely

God is, or he is not. Which way should we incline? Reason cannot answer.

It is extremely obvious to me that the internet is a religious phenomenon

Pray knowing that you pray to your heavenly Father. Pray in confidence that when you ask you will receive; when you seek you will find; when you knock it will be opened. Pray knowing that you pray to a God who doesn't give stones or serpents to his kids. Believe Jesus, and pray accordingly.

Amy Cahill didn't believe in omens. But black snow was falling, the earth was rumbling beneath her feet, her brother was meowing, and her uncle Alistair was prancing on the beach in pink pajamas. She had to admit, the signs were not promising.

Germanic mythology, reinforced by all sorts of occult ideas, evidently became for him a kind of substitute religion.

hunches are mostly your brain telling you what you want to hear.

It takes remarkable patience to hold on to a stock in a company that excites you, but which everybody else seems to ignore. You begin to think everybody else is right and you are wrong. But where the fundamentals are promising, patience is often rewarded—Lukens stock went up sixfold in the fifteenth year, American Greetings was a sixbagger in six years, Angelica a sevenbagger in four, Brunswick a sixbagger in five, and SmithKline a threebagger in two.

THAT NO ONE knows what happened to Jesus's foreskin is particularly interesting because there used to be upwards of a dozen in circulation.

The goyim are a curious people," Malpesh once said to me, before he had discovered who and what I was. "Not curious that they want to know things," he clarified, "curious that they don't.

Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

Never before in history had the world actually believed in the equality of man.

longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: "that God governs in the affairs of man." And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.