Quotes About Belief

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.

The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried.

It is some disaster for any mind to hold any one thing for truth that is untrue, however insignificant it be, or however honestly it be held. It is a greater disaster when the false prejudice bars the way to some truth behind it, which, but for it, would find an entrance to the soul; and the greatness of the disaster will in this case be measured by the importance of the excluded truth.

No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall live to see the drowned Egyptians on the seashore even yet.

I get some very fierce anonymous letters about the Athanasian Creed, which would amuse you, if they were not so sad as to what they imply on the part of the writers. The last tells me that I am a Pharisee, and should have helped to crucify our Lord. It is very odd that people should think, much more write, such things; but the passion of unbelief is a very serious thing while it lasts.

Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support it.

If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.

When someone refuses to listen to you or others, there is one source or entity that he will listen to: Call it God, the universe, a higher power, karmic law, whatever. At any rate, if he feels that the universe is trying to tell him something, then he may listen. He won't listen to you or anyone else, but the universe, that's a different story.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.

No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.

I got a grill, I dont need to get my tooth fixed, the tooth fairy might retire if I lose it.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

I believe in God and his son, Jesus.

Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.

Dreams can come true.

YOU are the one thing in this world, above all other things, that you must never give up on. … You are more precious to this world than you'll ever know.

Just believe what God says that Jesus has done for you... spirit, soul, and body -- think about it, talk about it, sing about it, shout about it, and the praise cure has begun.

I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.

The only one," he murmured. His chin dipped a little bit. "You know that, Dru? You're the only person who's ever believed in me. You know what that'll do to a guy?" What?"I-" "It makes him want to live up to it.

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.