Quotes About Belief

When man no longer regards himself as karmic he ceases to be so. That's the end of karma right there – when people stop believing in it, stop taking the idea seriously, stop treating it as real. Hinduism and Buddhism are total nonsense because they are predicated on karma, which is an illusion! They themselves say so!

In the end, it was a lot of nothing about nothing, thank God—or whoever it was capriciously doling out miracles while also creating the circumstances under which such were prayed for. Lucy wondered if maybe she should convert to Norse mythology or something, one of the ones with trickster gods, like Loki. The available evidence seemed to vindicate that kind of god, as opposed to the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving creator of space-time she'd been raised to believe in.

No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a LUCIFERIAN Initiation.

Place in writing often exists at that intersection between the reality of place and one's imagination about that place -- what one believes, hopes, or imagines about the various possibilities of oneself in that place.

All their lives they had been taught to think of sight as an anathema.

Time and time again, throughout the history of medical practice, what was once considered as "scientific" eventually becomes regarded as "bad practice".

After a long discussion of the country's woes, the interviewer asked Bobby, "But you are an optimist?" Kennedy nodded and smiled his weary-eyed smile. "Just because you can't live any other way, can you?" he replied.

Sadly, the now-accepted, international church forgot that it, too, was once considered a mere cult.

Whether anyone believed it or not, David felt he had to wait on God's word, and that Old Guy in the Sky takes his own, sweet time.

If they thought we were a bunch of crazies, why did they drive us to the limit?

They didn't believe me," I exclaimed when I saw Gary. "I told the truth, but they didn't want to hear!

I knew I would never be able to explain myself in the language of faith, a tongue I was still fumbling with.

Even if you totally believe in something, there's always an element of doubt.

Otherwise, everything I'd ever felt about this great country was a crock of shit.

Amigos nada más, el resto es selva. Caí en la cuenta de que la gente más valiosa en mi vida es la que me ha empujado a fabricar unos ideales, puede que ficticios, pero tan hermosos que da gusto jugar a que existen, apostar por ellos

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

As the philosopher Baroness Onora O'Neill has said, 'If we are to place or refuse trust we need either unmediated evidence of others

Learning does not require faith, just intellect. Obedience requires faith.

Learning does not require faith, just intellect. Obedience requires faith. It

Allah told me that it was what I was supposed to do. He told me to trick the white man, that getting close to him was the only way I was going to get back to Africa. And that I had to forsake all that got into my path.

may not be perfect as a person, but God is perfect… and if I roll with Him, He will help me become more like Him until it's my time to go.

real love is possible if you have faith and believe.

The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it, simply because they couldn't believe any government would tell such an absurd story unless it were true.

Nuts didn't need religion to make them nuts, Allison had long since decided, but it did seem to give them a certain added sense of commitment to whatever goals their nutdom decided to embrace.