Quotes About Belief

Ground not upon dreams you know they are ever contrary.

Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

Almost makes you wonder if someone was guiding us, strange as that sounds. I feel a swelling in my chest, and I honestly don't know if it's pity or jealousy of her belief that God or her dead brother can reach out and affect her life like that. I take her head in my hands and hold her closer, wondering which of us is lost and which is guiding the other someplace new.

Because certainty isn't the same as truth. It just means you're really, really deluded.

The Kluxers are about more than the color of skin. We are the moral authority.

It isn't just that I don't believe in God…. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

A comprehensively reductive conception is favored by the belief that the propensity for the development of organisms with a subjective view must have been there from the beginning, just as the propensity for the formation of atoms, molecules, galaxies, and organic compounds must have been there from the beginning.

If we tried to rely entirely on reason and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse – a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

The evolutionary story leaves the authority of reason in a much weaker position. … Evolutionary naturalism implies that we shouldn't take any of our convictions seriously, including the scientific world picture on which evolutionary naturalism itself depends.

What sustains us, in belief as in action, is not reason or justification, but something more basic than these--for we go on in the same way even after we are convinced that the reasons have given out. If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse--a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

If you can't prove that anything exists outside you own mind, is it all right to go on believing in the external world anyway?

I do not find theism any more credible than materialism as a comprehensive world view. My interest is in the territory between them.

Si yo fuera solipsista, probablemente no habría escrito este libro, pues no creería que hubiese alguien más que lo leyera.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

I believe in one God and no more, and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.