Quotes About Belief

In essence, they predict that science, not religion, will guarantee us an afterlife.

It's so deceptively easy to get people to stop trusting their own senses. They cut you off and then put fear in you.

Sometimes even the believers forget what they believe.

In the end, it wasn't so much that there was an alternative narrative--there always was--but it came down to belief: Which one did you want to believe. Which one suited you best? Or, perhaps more to the point: Which one told the story you were already telling yourself?

To misunderstand salvation is to fail to understand fully who the Savior is.

A common caricature of Catholic teaching is that it rejects the notion of salvation by grace and affirms instead that salvation is simply by works. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

If you say "can't" you're restricting what you can do or ever will do.

I think everything is possible as long as long as you put your mind, work and time into it.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

We must believe we are capable of transcending evil, of not needing to hide in the darkness or surrender to our basest fears.

Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.

Faith is the ability to endure.

Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

Whether a man bows down to God or Mammon or to Cthulhu in his dark house at R'lyeh is no affair of mine . . . until he sheds one drop of blood not his own in his deity's name. Then God have mercy upon him, for I shall not.

That you really have nothing to complain about makes you lucky, it doesn't mean you're good or that there's a god who loves you personally.

Do you believe in God?" he asks. "Do you?" "I used to" "What happened?" "I couldn't find him. He's supposed to be everywhere. I mean, he's not supposed to be playing hide-and-seek.

People think it's easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it's incredibly hard work. It's much easier to be hopeful.

To misquote Mark Twain: It isn't what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just isn't so.

I once had a patient who was convinced that his head was full of sea water and a crab lived inside. When I asked him what happened to his brain he told me that aliens had sucked it out with a drinking straw. "It is better this way," he insisted. "Now there's more room for the crab.

Michael Robotham

I ONCE DISMISSED FAITH BECAUSE I VIEWED IT FROM AN INTELLECTUAL STANDPOINT, BUT FAITH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH INTELLECT.