Quotes About Belief

If science has shown that God does not exist, it has not been by appealing to Big Bang cosmology. The hypothesis of God's existence and the facts of contemporary cosmology are consistent.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." The lame and the blind excepted, who could object?

If the calculus is much like a cathedral, its construction the work of centuries, it remained until the nineteenth century a cathedral suspiciously suspended in midair, the thing simply hanging there, with no one absolutely convinced that one day the gorgeous and elaborate structure would not come crashing down and fracture in a thousand pieces.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.

On the contemporary American left-right spectrum, libertarianism is neither left nor right. Libertarians believe in individual freedom and limited government consistently, unlike either contemporary liberals or contemporary conservatives.

Irre-verration, i.e. the persistent holding to a truth beyond its proper limits, has evidently been one of the major sources of illusion and delusion throughout the whole of history and in every phase of life.

No more free steps to heaven. - It's No Game

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We can't just accept it – we must doubt it. For by doubting we come to inquiry, and from inquiry we come to the truth.

Generalization is a natural human mental process, and many generalizations are true—in average. What often does promote evil behavior is the lazy, nasty habit of believing that generalizations have anything at all to do with individuals.

Magic and art arise from an egomaniac's insistence that the artist is right, and the universe wrong.

The world may end later than the year 2060, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit. —Sir Isaac Newton

one of the most fascinating and effective kinds of lying is self-deception.

Clearly, in this world, you were a fool to count on beneficence from above.

Nothing is beyond us, the new legends say. So choose well.

Dogmas don't have to be entirely logical, as long as they work.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

and embrace, instead, one man's lifelong belief that the obvious should be avoided at all costs while the marginal should be highlighted at all times.

If you truly believed that Jesus was praying fervently for you right now, how much of your anxiety would flee? Would it melt before the passionate pleas you make to your Lord?

Victory over anxiety begins with faith. What you believe influences how you feel.

The moment you have a certain thought and believe it, you will experience an immediate emotional response. Your thought actually creates the emotion.

This isn't a new idea. Nearly two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher, Epictctus, stated that people are disturbed "not by things, but by the views we take of them." In the Book of Proverbs (23: 7) in the Old Testament you can find this passage: "For as he thinks within himself, so he is." And even Shakespeare expressed a similar idea when he said: "for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" (Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2).

Anxiety results from the perception of danger. You can't feel anxious unless you tell yourself that something terrible is about to happen.

you can change your mood by changing how you think.