Quotes About Belief

Fundamentalists thrive in times of rapid social change. Fundamentalists generally champion emotionally charged issues that can be reduced to unambiguous black and white terms.

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. ...if you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?

one of the great things about our country is that you get to believe or not believe in anything you want.

People pick the stories they want to be true and they believe them. It doesn't make the stories true.

Rumors are as important as anything. Even if they're not true, they end up turning people into who they are.

It won't surprise you to hear that I'm a skeptical person. I don't even believe half the garbage that tumbles from my own mouth.

Maybe it will be something exclusively for me, to remind myself that believing in ridiculous things isn't always so bad.

Here's the thing about believing: sometimes it's a question of will. You work at it. You keep telling yourself to believe in something, and eventually your brain surrenders and lets the belief in. Sometimes it's like a switch being flipped, an overnight thing, a wake up and look at the ceiling and say THIS IS HOW THE WORLD WORKS NOW AND I GUESS I'M OKAY WITH IT sort of thing.

HOPE. It counts for so, so much.

When you believe something that you don't have solid proof of, that's faith, right? But faith is hard to do alone. You need others to believe the same things you do, or else you're gonna go a little nutty, aren't you.

If there was no way into God, I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

My family background was deeply Christian.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

It is better to be a naïve believer than an intellectual bereft of intuition.

In the restaurant of life, the false Salafi can do no more than eat the menu.

The believer's greatest argument is his face. True religion lights up the face; false religion fills it with insecurity, rage and suspicion. This is perceptible not only to insiders (Muslims), but to anyone.

The liberal theory of religion is homeopathic. (The more you water it down, the stronger it will become.)