Quotes About Belief

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, how can I possibly change, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear.

The majesty of creation forms my faith in the Creator.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.

There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .

I'm a big believer in human nature.

The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature.

Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?

I am by nature a worried optimist.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.