Quotes About Belief

The mind-closing danger of biased beliefs occurs when we don't know we hold them. Sometimes we have to swallow our pride and engage in clear-eyed analysis.

Some people believe they have moral choices other than to love their partners no matter what; others believe that they deserve love, no matter how they behave. I say that both are wrong.

We believe that the health of a culture is measured in part by the vigor with which its immune system responds to nonsense.

His story and the detailed nature of his belief system make me suspect that he is suffering from paranoid ideas. I love that: I'm suspicious that Mr. Hill is suspicious. It makes me think of those now yellowing crime-fighting signs from ten or fifteen years earlier that say: Report suspicious people. Suspicious people report suspicious people. Suspicious people report suspicious people report suspicious people. Add paranoia, stir and repeat, stir and repeat, stir and repeat.

Ursula believes that it was her habit of reading these cuttings that gave her a head start with her education.

I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.

God answers every prayer, Rabbi Schumann once told him, years ago. Mostly His answer is 'no'.

Louis could never shake the suspicion that some people, whether consciously or not, called the storm to themselves.

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

As children we accept magic as a normal part of life. Everything seems rooted in it, everything conspires in magic terms.

Romesh Chand was a man who did not believe in telephones, in the necessity for telephones

They crucified Jesus not because they disliked what he said, but because they couldn't take it

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

I've a reason to believe We all will be received In Graceland

People want to give up the responsibility of being able to understand and because they can't understand then they have faith, and they put their faith in other people who say they can understand.

The problem, as it was in the 1930s, is that decent people refuse to believe that such far-fetched belligerence is planned, even when they see it in cold print.

Paola Harris: Is it a grave mistake to think that you are the official voice of the Vatican? Monsignor Balducci: 'These ideas are mine, and I do not represent the Vatican. However, I am told that the Holy Father, John Paul II, has seen me on Italian TV several times and follows my radio homilies. If there were some objection, I'm sure I would know. I believe there to be no problem here.

Did you see these buildings turn to dust or do you 'believe' they collapsed because you were told that they collapsed? Whoever controls the energy controls the people. But whoever controls their perception controls everything.17 – Eric Larsen

There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me.

My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love you. I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you.

The Incarnation is the most stupendous event which ever can take place on earth; and after it and henceforth, I do not see how we can scruple at any miracle on the mere ground of its being unlikely to happen. — Blessed John Henry Newman

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.