Quotes About Belief

I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

He warned that any church that ignored reality would not survive to enjoy the divine.

rational mind had always justified these accounts as part of the myth. They were simply the result of man's greatest weakness – his need for proof. Miracles were nothing but stories we all clung to because we wished they were true. And

Well-directed thought is a learned skill. To manifest an intention requires laserlike focus, full sensory visualization, and a profound belief.

Langdon held her tighter. You start small. You take that first tiny step. you trust me.

But faith," Edmond declared, "by its very definition, requires placing your trust in something that is unseeable and indefinable, accepting as fact something for which there exists no empirical evidence.

The blind see what they want to see.

Sometimes to find truth, one must move mountains.

Hell, no. A church is the one thing we don't have. Physics is the religion around here. Use the Lord's name in vain all you like,' he laughed, 'just don't slander any quarks or mesons.

We all benefit from a sense of contact with divinity… even if it is only imagined.

science and religion are often attempting to tell the same story in two different languages.

Fossils were placed there by God to test our faith. - U.S. congressman Paul Broun

And more recently, the world had been led to believe that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq.

Show me proof there is a God, you say. I say use your telescope to look to the heavens, and tell me how there could not be a God!

Your heart yearns to believe . . . but your intellect refuses to permit it.

The age of religion is drawing to a close, and the age of science is dawning.

Worshipping God is like mining for fossil fuels," someone argued. "Plenty of smart people know it is shortsighted, and yet they have too much invested to stop!

don't believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect—" "—intended us to forgo their use?

Meaning … if enough people begin thinking the same thing, then the gravitational force of that thought becomes tangible … and it exerts actual force." Katherine winked. "And it can have a measurable effect in our physical world.

What if God was wrong?

Edmond found it deeply distressing," Winston continued, "that the human mind has the ability to elevate an obvious fiction to the status of a divine fact, and then feel emboldened to kill in its name. He believed that the universal truths of science could unite people—serving as a rallying point for future generations.

Well-directed thought is a learned skill. To manifest an intention requires laserlike focus, full sensory visualization, and a profound belief. We

your skepticism is one of your greatest strengths as an academic. It is also your greatest weakness. I know you well enough to know you're not a man I can ask to believe . . . only to trust.

Just because the human mind can't imagine something happening … doesn't mean it won't.