Quotes About Belief

where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.

People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

Alexander Berkman was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

I wanted to find a reason not to be cynical—to have some faith even when nothing around me seemed to justify it.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.

Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave? The myth of unique urban character and unique sensibilities in different cities exists because we want it to exist.

Put yourself in God's hands tonight and pray that He will lead you in the right direction. Then simply let go and trust Him, believing that you will sense God's direction and that He will bring you the peace you need.

When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Sociobiology, then, is a religion: one which has genes as its gods. Yet

Sociobiology is not incomprehensible, but it is one of the religions which are obviously false. The

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

There's nothing like waiting on the move of God; when you move you'll see God in action

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -

We are happy in proportion as we believe ourselves and our life to be of value; and few people are so disinterested or so conceited as to trust wholly to their own judgment in this matter.

No scientific theory can claim absolutely certainty.

How we view ourselves and define ourselves is perhaps the most essential paradigm we have as human beings. It determines all of our actions and reactions.

For man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.

man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.

Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.

To have faith is to refuse to doubt. The phrase "not doubt" is not intended to describe an especially strong faith, a faith strong enough to see miracles, as opposed to a weak faith that is haunted by doubt and cannot see miracles. Rather, eschewing doubt is the very definition of faith; a faith willing to ask for miracles, however tentatively, is the faith that will one day see miracles.

Your thoughts create your emotions; therefore, your emotions cannot prove that your thoughts are accurate.