Quotes About Belief

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is ken to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Christianity is a religion in a rush.

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater

To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can't. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn't want to be in the sun?

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

I have a story that will make you believe in God.

We believe what we see. So did Columbus. What do you do when you're in the dark?

Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.

You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!

If we citizens do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the alter of crude reality, and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

There people fail to realise that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. - Pi Patel in Life of Pi

If we, citizens do not support our artists, then we sacrifice out imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

To chose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them--and then they leap. I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while....But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.