Quotes About Belief

Spiritual rest comes through faith.

I was born in a time when most young people had lost their belief in God for much the same reason that their elders had kept theirs - without knowing why.

How do you know it's true if you don't believe in it? I...huh? How can you understand something you don't believe in? Shin, that doesn't make any sense. That's like saying you can't understand leprechauns unless you believe in them. Do you understand leprechauns? I don't believe in them. There you go.

Emily did not want to believe in ghosts. But she kept seeing them. She had been seeing them ever since she could remember.

figuring out was is real isn't always possible, because our own brains are telling us stories

To say Washington was a Deist—even a "soft Deist"—would imply that he did not have a problem violating his conscience each time he worshiped in his church. It is difficult to imagine how Washington, with his expressed concern for his character and his open commitment to honesty and candor, along with his sensitive conscience, could repeatedly and consistently make a public reaffirmation of a faith that he really did not believe.

George Washington's Sacred Fire intends to convince you that when all the available evidence is considered, the only viable conclusion is that George Washington was a Christian and not a Deist.

Indeed, given the facts, the burden of proof is not to prove that Washington was a Christian; the burden of proof is to prove that he was a skeptic who nevertheless sought to act like a Christian believer!

The skeptics who argue for Washington the Deist must explain his lifelong and heartfelt commitment to Christian missionary work.

But didn't you know? Everything is made up.

Let Stone be your God and you will find God in the Stone.

The credulity of crowds is never-ending.

Without thought he repeated some words which a boy had once chalked on the blackboard between lessons: 'A lump of coal is better than nothing. Nothing is better than God. Therefore a lump of coal is better than God'. And then he traced his own name with his finger on the cracked and broken floor.

worshipped was that of Mammon. It is difficult to estimate the size of monastic occupation. At the time it was believed that the clergy owned one third of the land, but it may be safe to presume that the monks controlled one sixth of English territory.

The English were indeed noted for their superstitious credulity as well as their piety;

Una de las grandes maldiciones del género humano es la de temer cuando no hay nada que temer, contestó. Este ánimo supersticioso y amigo de los presagios desarma los corazones de los hombres, ablanda su coraje y hace que ellos mismos atraigan las desgracias sobre sus cabezas.

Well,' said Hawksmoor. 'It's a theory and a theory can do no harm.

but, for most, the practice of religion was determined by custom and regulated by authority.

God isn't going to scribble across the sky, The shark is gone.

He would never believe, in his wildest dreams ,that she no longer loved him. She had said it once, but he would dismiss these sorts of things as temperament or wine as if a bottle contained an infusion of foreign thoughts with which she had innocently poisoned herself.

By the way they looked at me, by their perception of me, they would make me into the creature they perceived. I would feel myself becoming a lesser thing. It is the power of men.

What each culture views as the cause of madness is dependent on its world view.

I will always have doubts...But I will always overcome them.

No. It happened. But if it simplifies your life to disbelieve it, then do so.