Quotes About Belief

Paul L. Maier

I brought you eyewitness reports about Jesus' healings and the phenomenon of raising the dead, and you only opened your bag of logical tricks and came up with some threadbare explanation which was far more fantastic than the event it was supposed to explain.

With respect to the question of life after death, I think it is wise for Christians to admit to some tentativeness about it (Eccles. 3: 18–22). The surest thing we can and should say is that we entrust ourselves to God in death as in life (Rom. 14: 7–9).

I am convinced that an intolerant monotheism is a greater danger in today's world than a tolerant polytheism.

What you mean? Whaih you think Gawd is?' Joe remained sullenly silent. His mother's faith was too stalwart for his comprehension. There was nothing like it in his own soul to interpret it.

He had no idea whether his facts were right, but he suspected that the Doctor was often in the same position.

A wise man states as true nothing he cannot prove

You can't trust juries. Take it from me." "You don't believe in the system, that it, Luber?" "Would you want to be judged by people too stupid to get out of jury duty?

T-shirt with the slogan "Officer, I Swear to Drunk I'm Not God.

Si quieres qué Dios se ría, dile tus planes.

Bertrand Russell, "The fact that an opinion is widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."80

Is it really that easy? Is trusting in Jesus all that is required to enter into a relationship with God?" Indeed, it is.

I do think there's always a way to put things right. If I didn't believe that I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning, I wouldn't eat breakfast; I wouldn't leave the TARDIS ever. I would never have left home. There is always something we can do.

Ideological conformity depends on conditions of prosperity; it has no staying-power of its own.

When we were kids we always used to say, 'Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.' When John died, I thought, 'Well, maybe we'll get a message,' because I know he knew the deal. I haven't had a message from John.

Perhaps we were atheists by default, but the matter of God did not come into the equation of our love.

Don't let anyone tell you that the truth can't disappear. If I believe in anything, rather than God, is that I am part of something that goes all the way back to Antigone, and that whatever speaks the truth of our hearts can only make us stronger. Can only give us the power to counter the hate and bigotry and heal this addled world. Just remember: You are not alone.

It was nice of her to want to believe the best about me. People tend to do that with the strangers they're fucking. If she wanted to think that apathy and independence were the same thing, good for her. Maybe she was right.

The time will come when the mind will no longer fear the things it believes in; then man will be ashamed to have remained on the defensive for so long.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

people conducting themselves as the person God wants them to be in spite of the people, situations and circumstances that surround them.

Lacking sufficient courage ourselves, we borrow courage from courageous people and from our Higher Power, and it works.

I'm not saying God predetermines everything. I'm saying He or She has known all along that things would turn out as they have. God is not surprised. God is all-knowing, not all-controlling. Man does have free will.

I also choose to believe that if I do a thing for the right motive and leave the results up to God, everything will turn out the way it is supposed to. Not necessarily the way I would have chosen, but definitely the way it is supposed to be.