Quotes About Belief

In response to the good news of all that Jesus has done, I hurl myself at him as my only hope.

What you remember, it's real. It doesn't matter how accurate your memory of something is, it is real to you. What you perceive as reality is reality.

But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.

when you constantly expect that which you persistently desire, your ability to attract becomes irresistible. Desire connects you with the thing desired and expectation draws it into your life. This is the Law.

intended to include the prayer on Harney Peak in the book. Although the old man was embarrassed in front of the priests who had been his confessors and advisors for many years, he never denied the sincerity of his final appeal to the six grandfathers.87

Studies have shown that convincing religious agents (have) to have just the right level of outlandishness. Also, the manifestation need(s) to have an emotional resonance in order for belief to set in. Religions use elaborate rituals to stir up people's emotions....

beneath it all, religion has always been the fuel that keeps the furnaces of intolerance and hatred burning. And it holds us back from better things, but mostly from coming to terms with the truth about who we've become, from embracing everything science has taught us and continues to teach us, from forcing us to make ourselves accountable for our own actions.

There are only two surefire ways to get people to do what you want them to do. You either put on an iron glove and make them do it. Or you tell them God wants them to do it.

We feel (God's) presence every time we make a choice. It's something that's inside us.

Social justice is about freeing people from the clutches of witch doctors and superstition....

Over a billion people out there, worshipping these writings, accepting every word as God's own wisdom, slaughtering each other over them, and all of it without having the vaguest notion of where these scriptures really come from.

The only reason - the only need - to believe in God is to try and explain where this all came from....Where we came from. Where we're headed. But it doesn't work. If there was a creator, a designed who created all this, well then there had to be a creator to create that creator, right? And one to create him. And so on.

you can't reconcile religion with modern life, with all the knowledge we have, with science....

Hope isn't real by definition, is it? It's just a state of mind....

The thing about miracles is... if you have faith, you don't need them, and if you're a doubter, well then no miracle is ever enough. This is from the book The Last Templar.

There are two billion Christians out there, Sean, and a lot of them think of the Bible as God's words. His actual words. They think the twenty-seven texts that make up the New Testament were handed down to us by God himself, to help us lead better lives and achieve eternal salvation. They don't realize that nothing could be farther from the truth and that what we call the Bible was actually

It was only with Christianity that the idea of what a person believed in started to matter, and matter a lot, because his or her eternal life suddenly depended on it.

But the winners chose what we should believe in. They chose which writings were sacred and which ones were 'heretical.

you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy

Faith is easy when you're standing in front of a miracle. The real test of faith is when there aren't any signs." ~Reilly, The Last Templar pg. 244

We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.

It's amazing, isn't it? Here we are, two thousand years later, with everything we've accomplished, everything we know, and yet this little talisman still rules the way billions of people live…and die.

They bragged about democracy and demonized countries that didn't have it, but they didn't really believe in democracy. They believed in hypocrisy. Their moral compass had spun out of control, from the very top down.

religion has always been the fuel that keeps the furnaces of intolerance and hatred burning.