Quotes About Belief

For myself I couldn't care less, but I have a lover. Not a partner, Susannah, or a friend or a significant euphemism, but the love of my life. And he believes. And I've watched him tie himself in knots, as he struggles to find a place for himself in texts that were written thousands of years ago, with the deliberate aim of excluding him.

All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.

Michael Avenatti's message to Donald Trump supporters: Open your eyes and realize that you've been conned but we don't blame you.

Says Sullivan, "Those guys used to get together in the van and put their hands all together and then Paul would say, 'Where are we going?' And the band would go, 'To the middle!' And he'd go, 'Which middle?' And they'd go, 'The very middle!' " But it was all false modesty. The Replacements, it seemed, secretly believed in themselves and yet adopted a loser persona to insulate themselves against failure.

I'm not religious about God," Boon agreed, "I'm religious about Man." "We believe in average guys," said Watt. "What happens is, the system makes them all fuckheads." "And I want to try to snap them out of that," said Boon. "That's why I write these songs, OK?

believe in music in that way—if you want something to happen, you write a song about it.

With truth like a fairy tale and the way it unwinds, We've our entire lives to 'make-up' our minds.

The younger the Jews, statistics showed, the shallower their religious roots.

Many Christians have put the political cart before the theological horse.

the Hiéron du Val d'Or was simultaneously Christian and "trans-Christian.

Jesus is generally believed to have been born around 6 B.C. The Crucifixion occurred no later than A.D. 36, which would make Jesus, at most, forty-two years of age.

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

To a [conspiracy theory] believer nothing happens by accident, nothing is as it seems, and everything is connected.

walk not according to the flesh but according to the spirit....

he was/is God in the same way that they themselves were God, with the difference between themselves and the emperor lying in the degree of inspiration by, or in the dwelling of, the Holy Spirit.

Rastafari is the King with the Holy Spirit. I am a King with the Holy Spirit.

It was her business now to believe - in the power and beauty of words, in the spirits that move among us always, in the worlds of light and dark that neighbor us - to believe in the possibility of the impossible.

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

God prefers a good atheist to a wicked believer.

Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici.

Although my plans for the future haven't changed, I believe this brings my affiliation into alignment with how I have led and will continue to lead our city.

You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.

Here is something for you to write down and remember: facing reality is never pessimistic. Believing the truth, no matter how difficult that may be, is the ultimate act of optimism because it opens up the panorama of options that will free us from further deception. Taking off a blindfold is never an act of pessimism. Getting angry at the truth (or at the messenger who delivers the truth) is a self-deceptive act of narcissistic theater, and it is a colossal waste of time.

I don't know how else to describe it. I am afraid to say: 'I believe in the dream per se.' Just as it is, just as it was, just as when I am empty of night when I haven't dreamt.