Quotes About Belief

It's only cows who never change their opinion.

Belief is something you have in church, and God is dead!

The purpose behind all doctrine is to secure moral action.

Merely to ask, "Is that true? Do I and my hearers believe that?" does not produce instant answers. But failing to contend with those basic questions means we will speak only to those who are already committed.

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

The absence of consensus does not mean an absence of truth

Spirituality does not come from religion. It comes from our soul.

The apotheosis of error, doctrine of the crowd.

Two things do not extinct from our life, death ans God.

the human tendency to be seduced by a theory that supposedly explains everything.

It always seems impossible until it is done.' NELSON MANDELA

Reality is not the same to the doer as it is to the sayer

Find the truth and spread the lie.

I'm not like that, he says. I'm not a … Fairy? –Every time you say that, I whisper, a little part of you will die.

Having formed a hypothesis that something is true about the world, we are more apt to note and file away evidence that helps to confirm that while passing over the evidence around us that would suggest otherwise.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.

Maðurinn finnur það sem hann leitar að, og sá sem trúir á draug finnur draug.

There is no more terrifying experience for a Christian than to discover he has suddenly become a rationalist.

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

Þegar öllu er á botninn hvolft, þá fer allt einhvernveginn, þótt margur efist um það á tímabili.

It's a useful habit never to believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.