Quotes About Belief

though there is no question, as it turns out, that there can be a great deal of difference between belief and truth; yet, given a choice, either will do at two in the morning.

All of that is far beyond my ability to understand it, though I have no trouble whatsoever in believing it. After all, if understanding were essential to belief, more people would fish on Sunday.

but you can't ever be sure about a white man, and if you've got one that believes in virgin births, risin' from the dead, and God punishin' two nekkid people for wantn an education, you need to watch his ass ever' minute of the day.

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

To live in delusion is to live in the comfort of ideology.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

If you do not wish for His kingdom, don't pray for it. But if you do, you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

Some people would say bullshit is the grease that gets people through life," Weather said. "Other people," Letty said. "Not me.

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She thought Trump was going to be reinstated as President as soon as Biden was convicted of child molestation.

Izzy believed in redundancy.

Gina wouldn't be coming back until she marched in with Jesus and all the saints.

How many people have figured out that if you lie enough, and loud enough, people will start to believe?

He was also virulently pro-life, and Weather was strongly pro-choice.

Why would a just God allow this to happen? Was it all part of an evolutionary clockwork that God allowed to work through itself, unguided, an enormous experiment of some kind, for good reasons that humans couldn't perceive?

With Dannon, he had Quintana's belief that Dannon was the man behind the phone call. The phone call indicated knowledge of at least the planting of the pornography on Smalls's computer, and from there, inductively, the murders of Tubbs and Roman.

I'm talking to a guy who says he was taken up in a flying saucer and had sexual experiments done on him - which, I got to say, is probably the only sexual experiments he's ever had done on him, that didn't involve a heifer.

Birkmann waved that away. I'm not religious. Going to church - it's a magic show, in my opinion. Don't tell the Chamber of Commerce I said that. I'm not talking about religion. I'm talking about God, Virgil said. I'm a Lutheran minister's kid, and, believe me, there's a difference between a religion and God. I sorta cut out the middleman.

Atheists, he came to believe, generally worked in man-made cubes, with blackboards and computers and fast food. They didn't believe in wonders because they never saw any.

She had some hope, now. First chance

to somebody. It's hard to believe he'd get a break

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