Quotes About Belief

Oh, what? You're too smart to believe in ghosts? Flying across the universe, though, that's logical

White folks' belief that Negroes were magically gifted struck her as the most absurd form of superstition. Sorcery was in the Bible, which meant it was real, but to Momma it was self-evident that like every other kind of power it would be concentrated in the hands of the mighty.

I am and will always be the optimist. The Hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams."(The 11th Doctor-Matt Smith)

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

Sixty million people were announcing that they preferred one reality to another. Inherent in this decision was the revolutionary idea that you can choose your own set of facts. Blue-state

Meanwhile the pessimism of Trump's revolution is intentional, impassioned, ascendant. They placed a huge bet on America's worst instincts, and won. And the first order of business will be to wipe out a national idea in which they never believed. Welcome to the end of the dream.

We rejoiced in the idea that reality was not an absolute but a choice, something we select to fit our own conception not of the world but of ourselves. We are Christians, therefore all world events have a Christian explanation. We hate George Bush, therefore Bush is the cause of it all. And

I was a lapsing Christian, but in what direction was I lapsing? To nowhere, to nothingness. As absurd as the church was, it was an improvement over my actual life because there was at least a pretense of meaning there. Back in New York, I was just eating and taking up space, a depraved postmodern creature on the job, carrying pebbles up the media anthill.

It boggles my mind that people think they're practicing real political advocacy by watching major corporate TV, be it Fox or MSNBC or CNN. Does anyone seriously believe that powerful people would allow truly dangerous ideas to be broadcast on TV?

To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason. 2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right. 3. Charity is immoral. 4. Pay for your own fucking schools.

Jesus said, 'Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst.'

For people who undergo religious conversions, individuality is replaced by ideology, and very little room is left for personal growth or expression.

Yet they, believe me, who await No gifts from Chance, have conquer'd Fate.

Miracles do not happen.

The seeds of god-like power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday; I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

Thou waitest for the spark from heaven: and we,Light half-believers of our casual creeds,Who never deeply felt, nor clearly willed…Who hesitate and falter life away,And lose tomorrow the ground won today—Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?

Still nursing the unconquerable hope,Still clutching the inviolable shade.

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

Spells? Mistrust them. Mind is the spell which governs earth and heaven. Man has a mind with which to plan his safety. Know that, and help thyself. Empedocles on Etna: Act I, Scene II

To make a revolution, to be a revolutionary, you have to believe in something. Some new master plan for everybody to obey. But to be a rebel, you don't have to believe in anything. You're just a rebel, and you only want to be free.

All the world's religions speak the same language, they simply use different words.