Quotes About Belief

Religion is what you do and what you are.

The moon does not appear above all places where we stand. We know it is there, even when we have doubts that it may not be visible in the coming days.

There are still many affluent and famous people who believe in the simplicity of life. They live in peace without wanting it or needing it.

We do not stop dreaming until we cease believing in the power of imagination.

Not everyone believes in the beginning and existence of everything, except of himself/herself.

There is no such thing as moral standards if you don't believe in morality.

Believing in God because doing so satisfies one's needs is different from believing that there is a God solely because of evidence.

People who believe in The Truth often read one book or a group of books all their lives. For them the last word has been uttered by, say, Thomas Aquinas or Adolf Hitler or Friedrich Nietzsche. Hence they stick to their particular Bible and wear it to shreds. Such readers are almost always psychopaths. A one-book man is a dangerous man and should be taken in hand and taught how to diversify his literary investments.

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left. (Interview, Time Magazine , February 20, 2005)

If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

That which is imagined can never be lost.

One man's pornography is another man's theology.

There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.

Nowadays you have to go pretty far south in Italy before you encounter the widespread belief that any foreign girl is a whore unless her father and two brothers drive her around in an armoured car.

The past is real but marbled by beliefs That turned to myth as time eroded them.

If I no longer know that my redeemer liveth, I know that he speaketh not like Tony Blair.

ideology itself the perpetual enemy of realism.

a system of belief which confused the desirable and the inevitable was still a dogma.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

God of Clotilda, if you grant me victory I shall become a Christian.

What, then, is the need for evangelism? If God guarantees the salvation of the elect, why do we need to preach the gospel? First, because God has told us to, and second, because by it God includes us in what He is doing. The gospel provides the power of God for salvation to those who believe, and God has ordained that it be propagated through preaching (see Romans 10:8–17; 1 Corinthians 1:21). In other words, God has chosen to use men.