Quotes About Belief

Would it be an ideologue or a lover?

He'd never gotten back to religion, but he had gotten back some faith.

Sorensen asked, "And you believe all of them?" "I don't really believe any of them," Lucas said. "I can't afford to—but I think all but one are telling the truth. I just don't know who that one is.

That is the definition of faith, hermano, says Figueroa. Something that we believe in even though it doesn't work. Eres un cinicio. If it worked, it would be science.

Confidence isn't about knowing you're right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right.

It's hard to sell the official story to people who can see things for themselves.

Captain, the problem is not that I'm paranoid. The problem is that the universe keeps justifying my paranoia.

That's the human brain," Attavio VI said. "It creates patterns when there aren't any. Imagines causality when there is none. Imagines a narrative where none exists. It's in the design of the brain itself. It's primed to lie." "And primed to believe the lie.

A church is an institution separate from the religion it serves. It's filled with people. And you know how people are.

God is a hack," he said. "He's a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can't plot His way out of a box. How do you have faith when you know that?

Cardenia gawked at Rachela I. "You're unbelievable." "I worked in marketing," Rachela I said. "Before I was a prophet. After, too, but we didn't call it that after that point.

You have doubted me. Doubt me no longer. You have come to destroy me. I am not destroyed. You have come to burn me. I am the consuming fire. You will feel what it is to burn.

I'm not sure I like their plan for converting us to their religion, seeing as it involves dying and all.

I mean that you and I know that in this universe, God is a hack, he said. He's a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can't plot His way out of a box. How do you have faith when you know that?

Anyone can be a prophet. You just have to say that what you're talking about is a reflection of God. Or of the gods. Or of some divine spirit. However you want to put it. Whether those things come true isn't one way or another about it.

I worked in marketing," Rachela I said. "Before I was a prophet. After, too, but we didn't call it that after that point.

I could not personally care less about whether JT Leroy turns out to be fictional or not. I find fictional people writing fiction no more or less objectionable than real people writing fiction, because it's fiction

It's not whether she tells everyone," Huma said. "It's whether they believe her." "It's the truth." "Oh, my daughter," Huma said, and smiled. "Don't tell me you don't know how little that actually means.

It's conspiracy mongering." "I agree. But not all conspiracies crop up because someone forgot to adjust their tinfoil hat, ma'am. Sometimes they're part of a disinformation campaign.

People don't mind having the mystical aspect of a church being poorly defined as long as you make the rules of the church clear.

Hickory, have you ever lied to me?" I asked. "I do not believe you are aware of me or any Obin ever lying to you," Hickory said.

When a lie has negative consequences, people dislike it. But otherwise? They move on, and eventually the lie as a lie is forgotten, or in this case, codified as the foundation of religious practice and buffed and sanded into something prettier and more congenial.

Well, isn't that just like religion for you, Archie," he said. "One day it's a nice way to spend your weekends and the next you're in the middle of a righteous theological clusterfuck.

patterns when there aren't any. Imagines causality when there is none. Imagines a narrative where none exists. It's in the design of the brain itself. It's primed to lie." "And primed to believe the lie.