Quotes About Belief

It is fascinating to see how politicians can become convinced of a material fact when it is actually only supposition.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

The point is, could God pass an examination in Theology?

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

Belief in the supernatural is another powerful route to overcoming the very natural desire to stay alive.

You track with the heart, not the eyes. The eyes are easily deceived; easiest thing in the world to show something that isn't true and make people believe it.

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

Anyone who worships his own creation, something of his own making, is someone in a state of confusion. Power

That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.

I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

He thought astrology was a load of bosh! Didn't believe in stars and planets telling his fortune or anyone else's.

Meggie turned back to watch the children. Life was so simple for them. Their biggest worry was what they'd get for their birthdays. Their biggest grumble was the time they had to go to bed. Maybe things would be different for them…Better. Meggie forced herself to believe that things would be better for the children, otherwise what was the point of it all?" — Meggie McGregor

But faith is so easy to hold onto when you don't need it. And so hard to find when you do.

To my fellow Crosses, keep the faith.

Don't hate me for wanting to change the way things are. I believe in you, Callum. You can change the world, I know you can. But not like this, I'm not trying to be magnanimous or patronizing. I genuinely want to help but...