Quotes About Belief

Charis sipped, smiling back. "...I saw God everywhere." Grif narrowed his eyes. "Really?" She nodded and leaned close. "We were actually pen pals. I'd write Him letters in Latin and leave them in my closet." "Why the closet?" She shrugged. "Because He didn't appear after I set my front yard's bushes on fire, so I decided He was shy.

Even now...she [Kit] still had a need to believe that most people, that most of life, was good. That belief was a sort of strength, too.

For so many people, the stronger the evidence of failed strategies, the deeper they cling to their ways.

Just as we can get caught in outmoded habit-patterns passed down through generations, we can also get trapped by our habitual thinking just as much as—and just as erroneously as—people who maintained until recently that the earth was visibly and verifiably flat. We also get stuck in unconscious and invisible boxes that limit our ability to think in new ways.

We only see a speck of what's happening in our lives, but God sees the whole picture.

Alexandros's baiting and my experience at the Jewish temple opened my eyes to the fact that most men thought women inferior. After all, I had grown up under the shadow of the most powerful woman in the world. I saw great men prostrate themselves at her feet. I worshipped at the altar of the greatest Goddess of All, Isis.

Globalization has enriched the planet beyond belief, leading to ever-increased demands of perfection. And thanks to 24/7 communications, we all instantaneously know when these expectations aren't met.

Second, they believe that when the Marines go to war they invariably turn in a performance that is dramatically and decisively successful—not most of the time, but always.

Lifes greatest happiness is to be convinced that we are loved.

A library implies an act of faith.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.

Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.

The never ending alarms, the never ending phrases, the never ending hanging out of flags, now in triumph, now in mourning—it all produces apathy. And everyone feels helpless, and everyone knows he is being lied to, and everyone is told what he has to believe

If one cannot work for the Party any longer one must be able to look the truth in the face and die...

J'ai eu ensuite une crise de doute, à quoi étais-je bonne se je ne pouvais pas écarter les balles autour de toi...

It is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.