Quotes About Belief

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe

I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.

Nietzsche suggests that "if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire." In

It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.

No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.

God is God. His name doesn't matter.

God is God. His name doesn't matter.

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

The devil does not exist. I do not believe he exists. Nor do I believe the old saying that the devil's greatest accomplishment was to convince the majority of mankind that he does not exist. For me Satan and a literal hell are fables born of Christianity's desire to control humanity by increasing its fear of death. After all, I'm five thousands years old and I've never met Satan.

For me, Satan and a literal hell are fables born of Christianity's desire to control humanity by increasing its fear of death.

No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know we're mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.

Does love survive? Yes, I thought, somewhere in some place it is saved and made sacred.

You are not learning to do it. You're unlearning the belief that you can't do it. Try again, without trying.

A person is limited by his conception of himself, nothing more. If you really knew who you were, you could stop the sun from rising tomorrow.

And there they were being so responsible, practicing safe sex and all. She'd been a fool to believe all that hype, she thought. The only hundred percent safe sex was between Barbie and Ken, and she'd heard rumors that they weren't doing it anymore.

I have faith. It doesn't matter what I decide.

Both her mom and dad were so right wing they were like one-winged birds forever flapping in circles.

But desperate people often forget their religion when they need it most.

There are some things you just do because it's the right thing to do. And the outcome is out of my hands or in somebody else's hands. I want to believe there's value in that. You're doing everything you can for the patient, but you're not deluding yourself into thinking that what you do isn't worth doing because the person is going to die anyway.

the Christianity of the peasants Farmer talked to had a different flavor: "the shared conviction that the rest of the world was wrong for screwing them over, and that someone, someone just and perhaps even omniscient, was keeping score.

Change the world? Of course they could. He really believed this, and he really believed that "a small group of committed individuals" could do it. He liked to say of PIH, "People think we're unrealistic. They don't know we're crazy.

rare psychiatric malady that actually defines the idea—Cotard's delusion, the belief that one is already dead, or doesn't exist, or is putrefying, or has lost one's blood and inner organs.

People trust what they see over what they hear.

intentioned myth.