Quotes About Belief

And did I lose my faith in raffles about the same time and for approximately the same reasons that I quit believing that virgins can have babies; or that if I slay only those people the government encourages me to slay, I'll be allowed to spend all of eternity in some vaguely located puffyland sipping milk and honey with a huzzahing throng of cheery nonthinkers?

To practice a religion can be lovely, to believe in one is almost always disastrous.

What if the Christ and the Messiah come, and they're two different guys?

dreams don't come true, dreams are true.

I tell you, that switch from B.C. to A.D. must have driven people nuts. I bet more than a few Israelites missed their dental appointments.

You can hook a rainbow to a goofy vision -Jellybean is doing that- but you can't hook a rainbow to a lie

Hope springs eternal and all that, yet isn't it a fact that when we give up and quit hoping; genuinely, sincerely quit hoping, things usually change for the better? Zen masters say that when we become convinced that the human situation is hopeless, we approach serenity, the ideal state of mind.

God says, the check's in the mail.

no matter how valid, how vital, one's belief system might be, one undermines that system and ultimately negates it when one gets rigid and dogmatic in one's adherence to it.

an electronic technology, cultural changes occur more rapidly than value systems can accommodate them, and in the resulting confusion technology itself becomes a surrogate religion. Christ, the core symbol of Western

Ideas are made by masters, dogma by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road.

On where imagination comes from: "I think it comes from fairies … certain children are visited by a fairy in their cradle, and are tapped on their forehead with a small but luminous wand. After that, even all the forces in our culture, and there are many, are unable to totally subdue it.

God says the check is in the mail

Everyone knows that ghosts don't piss!

Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion

can't build the church with any great idea, plan or management. The church is built by Someone else.

Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency ?f living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

So it is with us all, we're not so one-or-the-other. The one who puts on the clothes in the morning is the working majority, but at night-perhaps in the moment before unconsciousness- we meet our sleeper- the priest is visited by the doubter, the Marxist sees the civilizing force of the bourgeoisie, the captain of the industry admits the justice of common ownership.

Mind reedetakse igal sammul. Ma ei usu inimesse, ja sina tahad, et ma usuksin jumalasse.