Quotes About Belief

The gods have no hands in this world but ours. If we fail Them, where then can They turn?

He wouldn't say pray, as he'd decided long ago not to bother the gods with questions when he didn't really want to hear the answers.

People can get almost anything wrong," sighed Oswyl. "Theology cannot be an exception.

Do not deny the gods. And they will not deny you." As Oswyl stared at him, he went on, "Dangerous habit, mind you. Once you start to let Them in through that first crack, They're worse than mice.

When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference.

I think He takes His foot to his cat and pushes her to decision. And furthermore, my god cheats. He set out this bowl of cream before ever He held the door, and He knew it well. She smiled, and tried to inhale.

I think He accepts curses the way most gods accept prayers, really.

perhaps he was not old enough yet to have really come to believe in death after life.

And as for absolute power, you sir, know what a false chimera that notion is. A shaky illusion, based on—God knows what. Magic. Sleight of hand. Believing your own propaganda.

Nevertheless, liking and disliking do not constitute proof any more than hearsay does.

The gods have no hands but ours, they say." He held up his fingers and wiggled them.

Was that supposed to be a concession? "You can be told the whole truth all day long, but if you won't believe it, then no, I don't suppose you ever will know it." He bared his teeth in a non-smile.

Then he had accused her of sleeping with her women friends. That had broken something in her at last, some will to desire his good opinion. How could you argue sense into someone who believed something not because it was true, but because he was an idiot?

Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

What makes the hallow kingship hallowed?" Ingrey hesitated so long in answering, Biast began to turn away again in disappointment, when Ingrey blurted, "Faith." And at the puzzled pinch of Biast's brows, clarified: "Keeping it.

Des said reluctantly at last, Pray to your god. He's the only other one in here besides us. Pen

The gods have no hands but ours, they say.

Do not deny the gods. And they will not deny you.

Even as a learned divine it was not his place to judge men's souls. The gods in their time would do so without fail and with much fuller knowledge.

If we have a relationship with Jesus Christ and believe the Bible to be the Word of God, then we have no room for wallowing in the swamp of self-pity.

Lois Walfrid Johnson

We may never know the true story behind the book, but the book has become a myth, and myth is truer than history.

Once we remove the cultural framework around the words religion and magic, no objective differences remain.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~Galileo Galilei