Quotes About Belief

It's hard to explain why I was so nervous: it was partly that little children are mysterious beings, and partly because I genuinely believed in first grade.

Respect for religion is the opposite of religious tolerance, because it allows the intolerant to impose their will on others.

Voltaire's pointed question, 'What to say to a man who tells you he prefers to obey God than to obey men, and who is consequently sure of entering the gates of Heaven by slitting your throat?

Trying to maintain a 'strong, pervasive, powerfully internalised' religious conviction in a world that can manage without religious explanations creates perpetual tensions, however. The

I've come to believe that the function of torture in our society is not about getting information, in spite of what we might want to believe. It is merely about power. It tells the world that there is now no limit to what we will do when we feel threatened.

I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.

For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

She had come out tonight because she believed there had to be a present tense, somewhere, and she'd followed Gav and Barnesy because she'd hoped they knew where it was. Is. And they'd dragged her to yet another haunted house. Where was the now? In bloody America, probably, apart from the bit that Tucker lived in, or in bloody Tokyo. In any case, it was somewhere else. How could people who didn't live in bloody America or bloody Tokyo stand it, all that swimming around in the past imperfect?

I am a rationalist, and I don't believe in genies, or sudden personality changes. I wanted David's anger to vanish only after years and years in therapy.

Does that help? Probably not, unless you are sane enough to believe that the truth about anyone is disappointing, the truth about me especially so.

When I say that you can hear God in 'One Man Guy' by Rufus Wainwright, I do not mean to suggest that there is an old chap with a beard – a divine Willie Nelson, if you will – warbling along with them.

But God, famously, moves in mysterious ways.

She had come out tonight because she believed there had to be a present tense, somewhere, and she'd followed Gav and Barnesy because she'd hoped they knew where it was. Is. And they'd dragged her to yet another haunted house.

Marcus tenía razón, por supuesto, pero tener razón no servía de nada si el resto del mundo estaba equivocado

How can it be bollocks to state a preference?" I ask. "If it's the wrong preference, it's bollocks.

Inilah hidup, Marcus. Kau harus berjuang untuk apa yang kau percayai, dan kemudian menetap padanya. Itu sulit, tapi itu bukannya tidak ada. Dan setidaknya, itu mudah untuk dimengerti.

Because some people believe that eating meat is wrong. And other people believe it's bad for you. And some people believe both." "What do we believe?" "I guess we believe both, but we don't care enough to do anything about it.

Noi che viviamo in questo quartiere e con questo reddito crediamo molto al potere delle parole: leggiamo, parliamo, scriviamo, abbiamo terapisti e consulenti e persino sacerdoti che sono felici di starci a sentire e dirci che cosa fare.

If, during his engagement to Edith, someone had tried to explain how lonely marriage could be, he wouldn't have believed it.

Hal tentang mencari seseorang yang tak jauh berbeda darimu... Itu hanya berfungsi, ia menyadarinya, jika kau mempercayai bahwa kau tidaklah terlalu buruk sebelumnya.

I try not to believe in God, of course, but sometimes things happen in music, in songs, that bring me up short, make me do a double-take.

He had developed a trick in college for speaking with authority. He believed that breaking his argument into numbers forced people to pay attention. How you said something could be more important than what you said.

I'm someone who's mostly dead inside but still has a little hope for something extraordinary, which, as I said, is the worst breed of human, because it means I know everything is bullshit, but that I secretly hope for the day when it might not be.

Throughout history, men have made many things to contain God: churches, temples, denominations, ceremonies. All of these have mixed motives and chequered histories. God doesn't 'need' any of these things, but it is in humanity's nature to keep building houses, and it is in God's nature to keep turning up.