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Quotes About Belief

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.
~ Michael Shermer
I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
~ Gloria Steinem
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
~ Leo Burnett
From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.
~ Émile Coué
There is only one death, so let it be in the path of Allah
~ Sheikh Abdullah
Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.
~ John Calvin
In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.
~ Bernice King
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.
~ Joseph Brodsky
There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.
~ Richard Leakey
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.
~ Isaac Asimov
To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.
~ Augustus Toplady
I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of -- they might be a ghost.
~ Andrew W.K.
Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.
~ Calvin Miller
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
~ Arthur Schnitzler
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
~ Voltaire
It is the responsibility of people like me and people who believe in the true Islam to stand up and say, that blasphemy is not punishable by death.
~ Pamela Geller
I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.
~ Val Kilmer