Quotes About Belief

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.

In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.

The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.

The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.

The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?

In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right.

The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.

I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

The gods lie. They lie because it's the best they can do. We reach out for their lies and we keep on living.

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

When she told me her age I believed her - why not? she hasn't changed her story for five years.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.