Quotes About Belief

we're raised to believe that deep down everyone has a conscience." At

The way we construct consciousness is to tell the story of ourselves to ourselves, the story of who we believe we are. I feel that a really public shaming or humiliation is a conflict between the person trying to write his own narrative and society trying to write a different narrative for the person. One story tries to overwrite the other. And so to survive you have to own your story.

But amongst a group who hadn't read it an opinion was beginning to form

Alex said this about Sandy Hook in January 2015: "Sandy Hook is a synthetic completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured. I couldn't believe it at first. I knew they had actors there, clearly, but I thought they killed some real kids. And it just shows how bold they are — that they clearly used actors.

society was, they claimed, an expression of that particular sort of madness.

It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.

The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith.

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

It's easy to believe in yourself when you're lying, because you're talking about someone else

We've got to squash this dewy-eyed belief that people can be motivated by anything other than money.

All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind.

She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.

Alfred believed that the real and the true were a minority that the world was bent on exterminating.

I used to be the kind of religious nut who convinces himself that, because the world doesn't share his particular faith (for me, a faith in literature), we must be living in End Times.

I don't think I'm any different than any woman. I mean, any woman who hasn't had her mind fucked up by male religion.

Il Paradiso e l'inferno ce li creiamo da soli.

I am a firm believer in family life. I feel that the home is the foundation of true happiness...much more the foundation than the church (or temple) or the school can ever be.

Every night after dinner he honed this skill of enduring a dull thing that brought a parent pleasure. It seemed to him a lifesaving skill. He believed that terrible harm would come to him when he could no longer preserve his mother's illusions.

And the proof of his insanity? His belief that the U.S. government was a repressive conspiracy that muzzled radical opinion. Only an insane person would believe that! The Unabomber had really, really liked Leila.

That this was what jail was for: people who believed that they, rather than society, made the rules.

To her the strangest thought of all was that she might be extraordinarily appealing. It went against everything she believed in, or at least against everything she wanted to believe in; because, deep down, in her most honest heart, maybe every person considered herself extraordinarily appealing. Maybe this was just a human thing.

religion, too, which is another big drug for people who don't have economic opportunity

Njen život sa Tomom bio je neobi?an i nedefinisan, zauvek privremen, ali upravo zato, bila je to prava ljubav, jer je svaki dan, svaki sat bio stvar slobodnog izbora. To ju je podse?alo na razliku koju je nau?ila još kao dete na veronauci. Njihovi su brakovi bili starozavetni, ona je poštovala svoju obavezu prema ?arlsu, Tom se plašio Anabelinog gneva i osude. Po Novom zavetu, jedino što je bilo važno bili su ljubav i slobodna volja.