Quotes About Belief

But your daughter doesn't say she's a demon; she insists she's the devil himself...

William Peter Blatty

and the hand that was obscuring her face was trembling. Lowering her arm, she turned and looked up at Karras, revealing a haggard-eyed, tearstained face. "So what's doin'?" she said. "What's new?" Karras studied her before answering, "Well, the latest is I've looked at the records from Barringer Clinic and—" "Yes?" Chris interjected tensely. "Well, I believe…" "You believe

William Peter Blatty

In the world there was evil and much of it resulted from doubt, from an honest confusion among men of good will. Would a reasonable God refuse to end it? Not finally reveal Himself? Not speak?

Yes, perhaps," Perrin answered. "Perhaps. It could all be suggestion. But in story after story that I've heard about séances, Ouija boards—all of that, Chris—they always seem to be pointing to the opening of a door of some sort.

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but

With an ache, Karras stared at the bowed and defenseless head. He yearned to be able to take Chris's hand and assure her that all would be well. But he couldn't. He didn't believe it.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity.

And blanket skepticism can lead one as far astray as blanket credibility can.

One of Stevens's epigrams ran, 'Black is white with a bright ring around it.' The Orwellian tone of that statement is justified. Stevens knew only too well that you can get people to believe almost anything about their own perceptions with a little sleight of hand. Subjectively, there are no absolutes, only contrasts.

Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body different from that which we now inhabit but it seems to me reasonable to believe that we are weaving our spiritual bodies as we go along.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Russian Army had always believed in the power of artillery.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.