Quotes About Belief

The front door is usually unlocked and there is no alarm system. They don't wear their seat belts in the car; they don't wear suntan lotion in the sun. They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.

Real terror – the genuine belief that your life is about to end violently – erases everything but itself from the brain.

If we piled them up, they would reach God.' 'But God does not exist, Comrade Farmer.' 'Nor do the potatoes, Comrade Stalin.' " "Old one." "Jokes only get old if they're good. Otherwise, who keeps telling them?" "People like you who aren't funny?

You understand, my boy? I can't help you. And you can't help me. Nobody can help anybody.' 'I don't believe that.' 'The trouble with this world,' says LoBianco, 'is it has nothing to do with what people believe.

My friend, I am no longer an atheist. Come on, I want to show you.

They have decided nothing nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.

You are what you worship. And you worship what you love. —James K. A. Smith

The rational alternative to Darwin's theory is intelligent uncertainty.

There is a system of belief adequate to the complexity of experience

If everyone's perspective is equally right, she warned her husband, then there is no absolute right, and everything goes. It could leave you without bearings, adrift and lost.

As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

An optimist was someone who believed that however complicated or random or odd a stretching curve might seem, if we had enough insight then we could understand the simple guiding principle from which it actually came. The concept then spread from mathematics to mean anyone who believes that such an optimal path can open up in life.

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.

What prevents theoretical insights from going beyond existing limitations and changing to meet new facts is just the belief that theories give true knowledge of reality (which implies, of course, that they need never change).

I believe in you. That's stronger than coffee.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

Turing believes machines think. Turing lies with men. Therefore machines cannot think.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

Nothing seemed to hard for God to perform; nothing to great for me to hope for from Him.

It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man; and it is an easier faith that plants and animals may dwindle down into an elemental atom, than that this atom should embrace in its organization, and evolve, all the noble forms of vegetable, animal, and intellectual life.

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.