Quotes About Belief

There are no hopeless situations;there are only people who have grown hopeless about then.

believed in honour but in instinct too, in impulsiveness and defiance and throwing caution to the wind. She would never have wanted him to choose convention over the call of his own heart.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don't believe in Mother Goose.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

Your book, ' The Tyranny of God ,' is well done. It is a very clear statement of the question, bold and true beyond dispute. I am glad that you wrote it. It is as plain as the multiplication table, which doesn't mean that everyone will believe it. I thank you for writing it. I wish I were the author. { Preface to 'The Tyranny of God by Joseph Lewis }

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. I'm not worried about my soul.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.

I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.

It's not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

Aside from a few odd words in Hebrew, I took it completely for granted that God had never spoken anything but the most dignified English.

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

It's the people on the inside who say, "Yes, we are Christians," and then live as though Christ had never lived.

It would be better to never teach them anything at all about God than to teach them the word of God and then bring them up in a society that nullifies the whole thing.

Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there.

Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed

Never suffer because you don't have an opinion on this or that topic. Never suffer because you are not something or because you are.

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.