Quotes About Belief

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible.

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

God and Scripture alone are to be our standard of conduct and character.

I know a lot of things about you, Garth...And I'm rooting for you anyways.

I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do....implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it.

There is more terror in a day of life than there is at the moment of death. It is as if a door has opened to a prison, though you do not believe it is a prison while you exist within it.

The hardest people to talk with about Jesus are not the people who are far from God and who know they are far from God. Those people are often eager to hear about Jesus' love and forgiveness. The hardest people to talk with about Jesus are religious people — baptized but not born again, members of an earthly church but not members of Christ by faith.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. " —Arthur Schopenhauer "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct." —Niels Bohr, Nobel Laureate & Quantum Physics Pioneer

was reality? Was anything real? Didn't every schizophrenic convince themselves that their reality was self-consistent and rational?

But since finding my grandfather's journal, I've done a little research on the period. Anyway, Hitler believed that the bigger the lie, the more audacious, the more likely it was to be believed. Because who'd imagine someone would have the nerve to spread such a colossal lie? And the more such a lie was repeated, the more likely it would be accepted as truth.

So Jim is right, then," said Kelly. "You aren't really caretakers at all. You just let happen what is destined to happen.

Anyway, Hitler believed that the bigger the lie, the more audacious, the more likely it was to be believed. Because who'd imagine someone would have the nerve to spread such a colossal lie? And the more such a lie was repeated, the more likely it would be accepted as truth." Kelly paused. "But I need to stop talking now and let you think.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions," said Boyd. "So is the road to heaven," she countered. "Which road we might be on is in the eye of the beholder.

The force is with us all.

I'm more inclined to believe in God because of our insignificance next to nature, rather than because we're so special.

Good people are rarely suspicious: they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing. Then,

Lucretius said, 'fear begets gods,' and he was right.