Quotes About Belief

Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

like the rest of us he seeks an external savior.

This guy—Joe whatever—hasn't even got the right expression on his face; he should have that cold but somehow enthusiastic look, as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith.

I remember something the Buddha said after he witnessed a supposed saint walk on water: 'For a penny,' the Buddha said, 'I can board a ferry and do that.' It was more practical, even for the Buddha, to cross the water normally. The normal and the supranormal were not antagonistic realms, after all.

Gerçeklik, ona inanmay? b?rakt???n vakit, kaybolup gitmeyendir.

There's something in the Bible about falling sparrows,' Kevin said. 'About his eye being on them. That's what's wrong with God: he only has one eye.

Nothing is true

There is nothing worse… no punishment greater than to have known God and no longer to know him.

he should have that cold but somehow enthusiastic look, as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith.

Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away.

Where are you going? Won't you come downstairs and—be with me? There was the most shocking news on TV; Buster Friendly claims that Mercer is a fake. What do you think about that, Rick? Do you think it could be true?" "Everything is true," he said. "Everything anybody has ever thought.

I chose God over the material universe.

Of course, he snuck all this in under the guise of pulp science fiction, baiting us into believing that maybe this is all just fantasy. Only once the story is over, and we take another look at the world around us, do we realize: It's all completely true.

He should have that chilled but somehow enthusiastic look, as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith.

The audience agreed, Amen.

I did not find God in the Prox system. But I found something better. God promises eternal life. I can do better; I can deliver it.

I'm sorry, Leon said. I can see you loved your two friends and you miss them, and maybe they're flying around somewhere in the sky, zipping here and there and being spirits and happy. But you and I and three billion other people are not, and until it changes here it won't be enough, Phil; not enough. Despite the supreme heavenly father. He has to do something for us here, and that's the truth. If you believe in the truth--well, Phil, that's the truth. The harsh, unpleasant truth.

Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.

The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.

GOD IS NO WHERE GOD IS NOW HERE

They're not idealists like Joe and me; they're cynics with utter faith. It's a sort of brain defect, like a lobotomy—that

In a 1981 interview with Gregg Rickman, Dick describes a nature documentary he viewed in the 1960s in which a female Galápagos turtle crawled the wrong direction after laying her eggs in the sand and began to die from exposure while still moving her limbs. That night Dick heard a voice tell him that the turtle believed that she had made it back to the ocean, adding, "And she shall see the sea.

A realidade é aquilo que não desaparece, quando se deixa de crer nisso.

Hallelujah," Rybys said. "What?" he