Quotes About Belief

There will be a few times in your life when your attitude is the little thing that makes a big difference.

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

If you would argue until the end of life, the infallible creature must alone be right.

there not enough of merit in the blood of Jesus to save thousands of worlds, if it was for these worlds that he died? Now

people [are] likely to be Muslims or Christians more from a need to belong to a group that would provide emotional reassurance in a difficult world, rather than as a result of a personal search for truth and meaning.

As Jung pointed out, our ancestors believed in gods; we believe in vitamins—both invisible.

The new myth will not come from above. Only totalitarian ideologies, or ego-crafted appeals to our complexes, will appear in such fashion.

even the most devout creationist today will not walk into an emergency room and insist that he or she be given "only the treatment available to Moses, or Jesus, or Mohammed, and of course, don't bother with that anesthetic stuff. And, while I am here, why not trepan my brain and let those evil spirits out?

Anxiety is treated by a search for certainty. And certainty – wherever we think we've found it – will lead to dogma. And wherever we have dogma, in time, it leads to rigidity. And that rigidity ultimately leads to idolatry.

Another thing I think about names is that they DO hurt. They hurt because we believe them. We think they are telling us something true about ourselves, something other people can see even if we don't. —Bobby Goodspeed

Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.

Maybe you'll remember me then." "I'll remember you." "Will you? Will you remember me tomorrow?" "Yes. Next week, too." "Will you remember me a month from now?" "Yes." "I dont believe it." "But I will though. Truly I will." "All right. I believe you. I know I'll remember you.

If a man could just hang onto one illusion he could still love. The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

Conviction and intensity are not the coin of truth, they alone can never buy it.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.

Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant? —I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?

Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude...

He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.

It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve.

That is god... A shout in the street,' Stephen answered...

You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use--silence, exile, and cunning.

Grace before Glutton. For what we are, gifs a gross if we are, about to believe.