Quotes About Belief

I feel like I can go all the way for the belt and hold it awhile.

I didn't need the belt to validate me.

I'm not religious. But I grew up religious in the Bible Belt.

I can definitely get the belt. It's something I always wake up believing every time I train.

I want to fight for the real belt, not the interim title.

I'm interested in any light-middleweight. If they've got a belt, even if they think they're the hardest in the division, I can beat all of them.

It is so much easier to find fault, to blame, to believe that what is needed is a change on the outside, an escape from the forces that are holding you back, preventing you from growing

Too often our unexamined and deluded story-lines become self-fulfilling prophecies. We can always marshal any evidence we want in support of a particular view, and then believe it even if it is patently not true. This is delusion.

Common sense is no match for the voice of God.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it… I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic.

When Alex left for Alaska, Franz remembers, I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him that boy was special. But he let Alex die. So on December 26, when I learned what happened, I renounced the Lord. I withdrew my church membership and became an atheist. I decided I couldn't believe in a God who would let something that terrible happen to a boy like Alex.

One man's faith is another man's delusion. . . .

How can a society actively promote religious faith on one hand and condemn a man for zealously adhering to his faith on the other?

that's a real big part of what holds this religion together: it's not having to make those critical decisions that many of us have to make, and be responsible for your decisions.

On the morning of the July 24, Pioneer Day, Dan got up, prayed, and felt prompted by the Lord to saw the barrel and stock off a 12-gauge, pump-action shotgun that he had been storing at his mother's house.

But it also demonstrates how difficult it is to correct a false belief after people have made an emotional investment in that belief being true. When our heroes turn out to be sleazebags, self-deception is easier than facing the facts.

I have to admit, the terrorists were following their prophet," Dan says. "They were willing to do essentially what I did. I see the parallel. But the difference between those guys and me is, they were following a false prophet, and I'm not. "I believe I'm a good person," Dan insists. "I've never done anything intentionally wrong. I never have.

Rape, Boylan pointed out, is the only crime in which the victim is presumed to be lying.

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.* ANTHONY STORR, FEET OF CLAY

will be thoroughly cleansed of Satan's minions—apostates

Those who would assail The Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible, say, or the Qur'an, or the sacred texts of most other religions.

Faith is the very antithesis of reason

In the absence of conviction, I've come to terms with the fact that uncertainty is an inescapable corollary of life. An abundance of mystery is simply part of the bargain—which doesn't strike me as something to lament. Accepting the essential inscrutability of existence, in any case, is surely preferable to its opposite: capitulating to the tyranny of intransigent belief.

We're disinclined to believe that someone who's an attentive student or a congenial athlete could also be a serial rapist.