Quotes About Belief

And this morning, / above us, invisible stars the daylight hides begin to map for us, / secretly, new paths our hearts had seemed to despair of,–those /vapor trails that linger longer than they are supposed to, the wake / of the boat that echoes perhaps endlessly, shore to shore,– if only / we can believe in them without ever seeing where they are. — Richard Jackson, from "Invisible Star Maps," Broken Horizons (Press 53, 2018)

The great sea makes one a great sceptic.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

You'll always have morons like that, swallowing belief patterns whole so they don't have to think for themselves.

When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.

Maybe that's why Heaven is silent and God doesn't speak to man anymore. Heavenly intervention would blow the point spread.

They were the understanding eyes of kindly folk who burned witches alive to save their souls.

And you're going to do that all by yourself?" "If I pray real hard, I'm sure I can get the baby Jesus to watch over me." "You just blew up a church," says Candy. "Okay. The Devil then." "That's more like it.

Once angels get an idea in their head, there's no arguing with them. Like cops and people who listen to reggae.

Nothing good has ever come from anything that begins with "God has a message for you.

You still think I have a good side?" "There's a search party out for it but I'm optimistic they'll turn up something.

Ignore him. He thinks the Last Supper was nachos and Twinkies.

The first person to say 'Intelligent Design' has to wear the Charles Darwin beard I keep in my desk for the rest of the year.

I believe we're going to be dead a lot longer than we're alive, so anything you like you should do to excess. I believe America lost its soul when they took the big-block V-8 out of Mustangs. I believe Hollywood should stop remaking A Star Is Born.

So, this really is a crusade after all. And now I'm part of it. Hallelujah.

When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

Our doubts are traitors..." William Shakespeare

Devotion means putting in extra hours because you believe in something and you want to see it work. You believe in something with all your heart and are very passionate about it.

If Christianity is to be discounted as wishful thinking because it removes fear of meaninglessness and annihilation, then secularism should be open to the same charge, since it removes the hated ideas of an absolute superior and of real responsibility.

So far as his beliefs about the primary world were concerned, Tolkien was a traditional, orthodox Catholic. So far as his subcreated world was concerned, he claimed the right to say, not how things are, but how, within the limits set by his fundamental beliefs, they could be.

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

What I focus upon becomes reality. I have the power to choose.

When I live with God in my heart, my future is to live in the Heart of God.