Quotes About Belief

When people say perhaps its cause theyre lying. Either they dont believe the thing theyre saying, or they do believe it only they dont want to admit they do.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

Just because you believe it doesnt make it so.

I believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.

Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.

You are so intent that you believe only what you believe that you believe, that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe without believing that you believe it.

The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Even if the good old days never existed, the fact that we can conceive of such a world is, in fact, an affirmation of the human spirit. That the imagination of man is capable of creating the myth of a more open, more generous time is not a sign of our folly.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.

When he learned that we were interested in flying as a sport, and not with any expectation of recovering the money we were expending on it, he gave us much encouragement. At

If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

Neither secular progress nor secular progressives have brought the West where they once promised. Nor can they.

Balaam's ass is the patron saint of apologists. Madness, as we shall see, is an appropriate term for the unreality of unbelief.

If the Christian faith is true, it is true even if no one believes it, and if it is not true, it is false even if everyone believes it. The truth of the faith does not stand and fall with our defense of it.

An "open mind" can be an "empty head," and "tolerance" can be indistinguishable from believing nothing. These are no help in finding honest answers to honest and important questions.

There are no foolproof methods of persuasion, and those that come closest are coercive and dangerous because they override the will rather than convince the mind.

Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.

The Christian faith is not true because it works. It works because it is true.