Quotes About Belief

Tennessee said it best: "Sometimes there's God so quickly.

I'm tired of the same surprise. I think I'm like most of us in that I want to believe the image. Don't tell me Clint Eastwood hates horses, I don't want to know it.

La vita è dolore» disse sua madre. «Chiunque affermi il contrario cerca certamente di venderti qualcosa».

you would never in this world have beaten him. But I tell you this: he would never in this world have beaten you.

So there are no nontheologians; there is just good theology and bad theology.

The Bible's concern is not if we shall believe but what we shall believe.

A Princeton student being interviewed by a reporter was questioned about the prospect of American troops going to Afghanistan when the Soviet Union invaded there. "There's nothing worth dying for," was her response. Which means of course that one day she shall have the unpleasant task of dying for nothing.

The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence.

Whether an observation is significant depends on what theories one already accepts.

Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.

I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.

Christianity has a basic content, and that content matters.

Christians in North America and Europe have always looked forward to celebrating Christmas.

to declare that all those things must have been the work not of men but of angels.16

With that, Justin and his comrades were beheaded. Justin won the crown of martyrdom he so desired and is today known as Justin Martyr.

Dear Pie: I feel very strongly about your doing duty. Would you give me a little more documentation about your reading in French? I am glad you are happy—but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

Don't you believe it. As far as I'm concerned, and I think as far as most kids go, once religion sinks in, it stays there—deep down. The lads who get religious training, get it where it counts—in the roots. They may fail it, but it never fails them. When the score is against them, or they get a bum pitch, that unfailing Something inside will be there to draw on.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Pragmatism asks its usual question. Grant an idea or belief to be true, it says, what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.