Quotes About Belief

And its strong continuing religious beliefs were an indication of how widespread the faculty was, granting the "supernatural" events a respectable orthodoxy.

We must know that we can do what we have to do.

You're wrong," she said. "Both of you. If I know anything now, it's that our religions are lies. Horrid, dirty lies. I don't believe in God, or destiny, not any more.

Cults have refined their recruitment operations down the centuries until they have become masters of extracting devotion and money from their damaged followers in exchange for their own vision of salvation.

I consider it extremely unlikely. Which I admit sounds like an agnostic answer rather than a definitive atheist assertion.

Why don't Edenists believe, then? Our culture proscribes nothing providing it doesn't harm the majority.

And who decides what true is?

Despite the evidence, that lost part of Jed's heart had wanted to believe in his divine savour and her promises of a better world.

Our perception of the Silfen as gentle and kind is our own stupid, convenient illusion. We wanted to believe in elves. And how many human bodies lie out there under the snow because of that?

You are going to have to make considerable adjustments to your culture now you know humans have an immortal soul.

You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

Are you sure it is trustworthy, Mellanie?" "I'd be dead if it wasn't." "Yes, I suppose that does generate a respectable level of personal confidence.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale.

If you don't believe in ghosts, why you wake up from nightmares screaming out the names of your dead friends?

Did I dream this belief or did I believe this dream?

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

And I realize that maybe not so much has changed as we all thought, that maybe the whole idea of progress is a paradox, a rocking horse that goes forward and back, forward and back, but stays in the same place, giving only the comforting illusion of motion.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain.

I can't imagine that anything like the Christian image of hell actually exists. But lately I've been wondering about the ancient Greenlandic realm of the dead. If you consider all the unpleasantness you encounter while you're alive, it seems improbable that it would all come to an end simply because you're dead.

The true reality of things is not important. What's important is what people believe

Europeans need easy explanations; they will always choose a simple lie over a contradictory truth.