Quotes About Belief

Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man and one who'd been raised to accept life's mysteries—the Blessed Trinity, for one instance, a woman's reasoning, for another.

Yes. He loves us all. "No!" Tunic emphatically disagreed. "God does not." Well, fuck him, then, Raymer thought, giddy with heat and blasphemy. Shame on God. "Because a shirker is a coward." No, God is.

Laughter is often a more complex and thoughtful emotional response than tears, though we seem to believe that being moved to tears is somehow more noble

How, he couldn't help wondering, did you get to be this woman's age and still believe, as she apparently did, that everything meant something? She was obviously one of those people who just soldiered on, determined to believe whatever gave them comfort in the face of all contrary evidence. And maybe that wasn't so dumb. The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.

When someone loves you," she went on, "you don't have to wish for it to be so. You just know it is.

What kind of town? What kind of country? What kind of people? If my father had been on the courthouse steps that day, he might have been able to summon his deeply held conviction that ours was a good town, a good country, and that we were good people, but I couldn't think what to say, and Gabriel seemed grateful that things made no better sense to me than they did to him.

A healthy obsession, we could say, interrogates its own driving convictions.

The past was in them, still disturbing but no longer a governing history; the trauma strengthened the convictions they possessed about how to lead their lives.

Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Shaking settles and roots.

Personally, I didn't celebrate Christmas or believe in Santa Claus. Mama tried to convince me otherwise, but I was adamant. It didn't make sense to me why any white man would take a night out of the year to bring us gifts. Anyway, what did it matter if a man masked himself in religion one day and the next wore the white hood?

Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires

Public peace is the act of public trust; it is the faith that all are secure and will remain secure.

Then, first of all, let us admit that there is no such thing as objectivity, no such objective fact as objectivity. Objectivity is a fabricated concept, a synthetic intellectual construction...

The white man's God is just like the white man. He thinks he is the only God, just like the white man thinks he is the only man.

While listening to the vivid language of the sermons I was pulled toward emotional belief, but as soon as I went out of the church and saw the bright sunshine and felt the throbbing life of the people in the streets I knew that none of it was true and that nothing would happen.

in a boy like Bigger, young, unschooled, whose subjective life was clothed in the tattered rags of American "culture," this primitive fear and ecstasy were naked, exposed, unprotected by religion or a framework of government or a scheme of society whose final faiths would gain his love and trust; unprotected by trade or profession, faith or belief; opened to every trivial blast of daily or hourly circumstance. There

Ah tol yuh t leave them Reds erlone! They don mean no body no good! When men starts t deny Gawd, nothin good kin come from em!

Ovunque, nella mia vita, io abbia incontrato la religione, ho trovato la discordia, il tentativo di un individuo o di un gruppo di dominare un altro in nome di Dio.

Our brains are belief engines, not truth engines.

Was he absolutely certain she about her? Yes.

I noted too that I had on many occasions spoken on the subject of the pollution of the spirit (or so I told them), and how the spirit should not be polluted, and how I personally looked askance at, for instance, a latte.

Morality's just comfort food -- it holds no meaning outside of our minds.

Hope is a lie that becomes true

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.