Quotes About Belief

The serene confidence which a Christian feels in four aces.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie — I found that out.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.

Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Appearance is the consequence of fitness, and confidence is a consequence of capability.

If that thing's [hibernating alien] god... ...gimme that old time religion

Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one that can really help.