Quotes About Belief

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

He knows religion is bollocks," Collingswood said. "He just wishes he didn't.

Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don't mean it's a myth.

You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to do.

Believe me, there's nothing so terrible that someone won't support it.

But sometimes it ain't the strongest wins. And especially when the stronger thinks, because it's stronger, that it ain't got to try to fight.

The revolutionaries want a new country in a new world, one they cannot see but believe they can build. And they believe that in so doing, the builders will also build themselves anew.

Come on now," Vardy said. "You can have faith in anything," Vardy said. "Everything's fit to be worshipped.

There are gods and catastrophes.

Really? That's what it stems from, is it? You've got it all sorted out, have you? Faith is stupidity, is it?

Oh, believe me, I know the story," he said. "It's a crutch, isn't it? It's a fairy tale. For the weak. It's stupidity. See

Whether you agree with the bloody predicates or not, Constable Collingswood, you should consider the possibility that faith might be a way of thinking more rigorously than the woolly bullshit of most atheists.

Maybe it was always that way and everyone has always been forever waking in a flustered confusion deep at night trying to believe that the awful sound they think woke them was nothing, or was the nervous bark of a dog, not the sound of violence or of a child weeping in the kind of desolation or terror that demands intervention

Yeah but," Collingswood said cautiously. "Only, it's not totally admirable, is it, given that it's total fucking bollocks." They stared some more. "Well," Vardy said. "That is true. I would have to concede that, unfortunately." Neither of them laughed, but they could have done.

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The gods don't owe us anything. That's not why we worship. We worship because they're gods. This is their universe, not ours. What they choose they choose and it's not ours to know why.

He knows religion is bollocks," Collingswood said. "He just wishes he didn't. That's why he understands the nutters. That's why he hunts them. He misses pure faith. He's jealous.

You told all this to the people in the town," he said. "They said they can't do anything because of no proof.

Is it more foolish and childish to assume there is a conspiracy, or that there is not?

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

A maker of IDOLS is never an idolater.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Limitations are but boundaries in our minds

Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.