Quotes About Belief

Life is either a collision of random events, like billiard balls during a break careening off and into one another, or if you are so inclined to believe, our predetermined fate—what my mother took such great comfort in calling God's will.

Everything happens for a reason, Samuel. Never forget that. Have faith in God's will." Then she closed her eyes. They would be the last words she ever spoke to me.

Hope became something to cling to when there was nothing else but despair.

In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection.

Murder is a sin. It's a sin in Judaism, it's a sin in Christianity, it's a sin in Islam and every other… - I'll decide what's a sin.

Rakkim would have loved to believed that… another reason he wasn't convinced.

They're fucking crosses. Just stick them in the ground. If there's a heaven they're already there. If not… it doesn't matter if the crosses are nice or not.

People believed what made them comfortable. What fit with their preconceptions of how the world worked.

You're praying, they're praying, and God, oddly enough, will come down on the side of the one with the most guns and most willing to use them. God always does.

No one believes what they're told. They believe what they uncover. What they dig up on their own. And the harder it is to find, the more they believe it when they do find it.

Faith was the most powerful force in the universe.

People need symbols, something greater than their own lives.

Religion was all about getting dumbasses to line up and sign up, making people pay today for heaven tomorrow.

One should get braver as one got older… there was less to lose. Why fear man taking Allah would take soon enough? Easy to say when one believed in Allah. Paradise awaited the faithful. The problem was… he no longer believed.

Not like God reads minds or anything. - He better not, or we're all fucked forever.

Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.

I'm waiting for God to give me a clue. It's a good thing I'm patient.

Si [...] estamos dispuestos a renunciar a la idea de quién creemos ser cada uno, no habrá oposición alguna entre ambos.

I believe in teaching, but I don't believe in going to school.

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.