Quotes About Belief

As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic.

I actually believe more in outer space in Virginia, because I can look up at the sky and count the stars.

I always say my Christianity and my virginity don't limit options. I think that they refine my options.

If you believe in astrology, I'm a Virgo, so I'm very controlling; I'm very neat, and I'm very organized.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

Since 1975, when I entered the Wharton Graduate School, I have belonged to a small group of economists who believe that the world does not contain a limited amount of physical resources. Quite the contrary, I believe that the world is a virtual cornucopia of physical resources.

It's been well documented how we start to believe in our virtual or digital selves more than our real selves, but it's strange to think that human behaviour hasn't really changed at all since that legend was created.

No one in Silicon Valley loves virtual reality or believes in its future as much as Clay Bavor.

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Since the early 1960s, since what's been called the charismatic movement within the Christian church, a significant number of Christians believe that virtually every problem a human can have is of demonic origin.

Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.

As a child, I seriously believed my family was going down the road to bankruptcy. I was denied virtually every popular trend, from heavily logoed Tommy Hilfiger windbreakers to amusement park season's passes.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.

For a novelist, the great thing about the Stone Age people is that we know virtually nothing about their beliefs - which means that I get to make it up! But it's still got to be plausible.

The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

I have always believed in seeking happiness in the happiness of others and the virtue of seeking God's pleasure in helping His people.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.