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Quotes About Belief

Do you think it's a conspiracy?' 'Mr Durukan, if God is dead then everything is conspiracy.
~ Unknown
Everyone has a camera on their phone and no one sees UFOs anymore.
~ Unknown
To take away those people's faith in their Compassionate Society; the faith that the Ministry of Pain, the Seven Servants, the Polytheon, care for them as individuals and want nothing more than their individual happinesses; you think this will make them happy?
~ Unknown
What right have you to try and take away happiness, false or not, illusory or not?" "Because I believe there must be something more important than happiness. Accountability. Quality. Satire." "Not
~ Unknown
What right have you to try and take away happiness, false or not, illusory or not?" "Because I believe there must be something more important than happiness. Accountability. Quality. Satire." "Not in the Compassionate Society.
~ Unknown
Hold on, I won't have to read anything, will I? I'm not allowed to look at words, reading's sinful.
~ Unknown
Striving, straining for the clouds, she could hear the voices in the manswarm below shouting, "Never do it, never make it, too far, too high, too much," and she shouted down to them, "Of course I can, of course I will, watch me, watch me!
~ Unknown
Doubting ended. Faith restored. What to do, how it must be done, and why; clear and unambiguous as the whisper of an archangel. Rebirth from the womb of a synthetic sleep-pod. Courtney Hall grinned.
~ Unknown
Mr. Durukan, if God is dead then everything is conspiracy.
~ Unknown
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
~ Ian Mcewan
I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
~ Ian Mcewan
I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee
~ Ian Mcewan
Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract.
~ Ian Mcewan
You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73 good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
~ Ian Mckellen
despite rumors to the contrary, you're on the side of the angels. (...) Whether you like it or not.
~ Ian Rankin
When we stop believing in God, we don't suddenly believe in "nothing" … we believe anything.
~ Ian Rankin
Job, actually. I read it once a long time ago. It seems more frightening now though. The man who begins to doubt, who shouts out against his God, looking for a response, and who gets one. 'God gave the world to the wicked,' he says at one point, and 'Why should I bother?' at another." "It sounds interesting. But he goes on bothering?" "Yes, that's the incredible thing.
~ Ian Rankin
Where was the religion for a man who believed that good and bad must coexist, even within the individual? Where was the religion for a man who believed in God but not in God's religion?
~ Ian Rankin
Everything you do from waking till sleeping is against somebody's Bible, Cafferty.
~ Ian Rankin
Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet.
~ Ian Rankin
Witches never existed, except in people's minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? We're all witches in one way or another. Witches was the invention of mankind, son. We're all witches beneath the skin.
~ Ian Rankin
trapped in limbo, believing in a lack of belief, but not necessarily lacking the belief to believe.
~ Ian Rankin
Rebus reminded himself to stop praying. Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet.
~ Ian Rankin
What do you call a conspiracy theory that's backed up by evidence? Oh yes, a conspiracy
~ Unknown