Quotes About Belief

God don't give out certain.

There's another element too: nearly every cult is headed by a single controlling leader. He—it's usually a man—has a consuming ego, attacks his enemies, lashes out in anger, has an absolute belief that he's correct, won't listen to advice or criticism, is paranoid and craves worship and adulation.

Jeffery Deaver

There will always be a Comrade Vo. There have always been governments that tell us what to do and what not to do, to tell us what to believe and how to behave. We are small people who must bend with the slightest breeze. That is the essence of small people. We can no more change these events than we can change the direction of the wind.

nearly every cult is headed by a single controlling leader. He—it's usually a man—has a consuming ego, attacks his enemies, lashes out in anger, has an absolute belief that he's correct, won't listen to advice or criticism, is paranoid and craves worship and adulation.

Okay," Simpson said. "You got

My lord, if a man cannot express his honestly held views in the Central Criminal Court, perhaps you can advise me where else he is free to state that which he believes to be the truth?

But he knew that on the day of a general election, every candidate is convinced he is going to win, even the Liberals. Giles

Everyone should be allowed to follow their own conscience, Wainwright, when it comes to facing a moral dilemma. Bertrand Russell, no doubt, said Wainwright. Jesus Christ, actually, said George

Show me one who isn't

This change step involves attacking your lifetrap on an intellectual level. In order to do this, you must prove that it is not true, or at least that it can be changed. You must cast doubt on the validity of your lifetrap. As long as you believe that your lifetrap is valid, you will not be able to change it.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...

The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.

But maybe they understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing, I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.

Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.

This can't be true but I remember it.

But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.

What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

She leaned toward him and said in a quiet voice, Are you Christian? Mitchell hesitated to answer. The worst thing about religion was religious people.

Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives.

At the time, infatuated with Nietzsche (and half asleep), Leonard didn't want to get into this argument, the truth of which wasn't that all religions were equally valid but that they were equally nonsensical.

Fin da piccole sapevano quanto poco valore il mondo attribuisse ai libri, e non perdevano tempo a leggerli. Mentre io, anche adesso, continuo a credere che quei puntini neri su fondo bianco abbiano il più alto dei significati, che se insisto a scrivere potrò cogliere l'arcobaleno della coscienza e rinchiuderlo in un barattolo.

The worst thing about religion was religious people.