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Belief Quotes
"What you believe and hold close to your heart, you will become."
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"Deep scientific psychoanalysis reveals that excessive beliefs and dependence on religion is a superstition and fear induced psychiatric disease."
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"Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze."
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"The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will."
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"Every exceptional bias against Christianity I find to be evidence for its validity."
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"In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns."
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"I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in the sky watching everything I did and I retaliated by explaining where babies came from. Some of their mothers phoned mine to complain, though I think I was more upset than they were: they didn't believe me but I believed them."
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"Believe what you believe and it will be, believe what others believe and they will consume you!"
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"I'm not superstitious. I'm a witch. Witches aren't superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of."
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"Many of us are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical untruths. There are some opinions and some beliefs so incredibly moronic, you actually feel stupid for not believing them; and it's probably because in giving the benefit of the doubt you self-doubt, you convince yourself into lame passivity and blind acceptance, you tell yourself, 'Maybe I'm just missing something here."
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"The foundation of all personal development, actually, is self-acceptance and self-love."
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"It is one thing to believe and another to know."
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"There is no limitation to what you can achieve, if you can believe."
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"The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship."
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"Common people tend to term any kind of bizarre phenomenon as "paranormal or "supernatural. They often exaggerate it as the work of the Gods. Behind this belief is nothing but primitive ignorance. Social progress means that people must (a necessity, not a luxury) align their beliefs and behavior to new knowledge and understanding of nature."
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"...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I've seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn't want to be helped, and I hadn't time to work up interest for something that didn't interest me."
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"In his refusal to believe in anything supernatural or inherently evil, he was as unrealistic as an old voodoo queen who sees spirits everywhere."
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"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."
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"What would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my script in some tediously exacting manner? I must confess that I am less likely to believe that it's a matter of some narcissistic demand that I freely pen my own script. Rather, I think it's fear that I'm too inadequate to follow God's."
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"Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness."
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"There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it's time to believe the gnawing."
"The only one that believes in you, is you. Don't lean on how others see you to find belief in yourself."
"I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly,' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he was. I always think of him as a rather handsome gentleman."
"Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment - an attitude that has never again left me."
"Believe," said the rumbling voice. "If you are to survive, you must believe.""Believe what?" asked Shadow. "What should I believe?"He stared at Shadow, the buffalo man, and he drew himself up huge, and his eyes filled with fire. He opened his spit-flecked buffalo mouth and it was red inside with the flames that burned inside him, under the earth."Everything," roared the buffalo man."
"Scientism and godism are superstitions, one blindly believes in what's visible, the other blindly believes in what's invisible."
"Just as you first eat with your eyes, you also first desire things with your subconscious mind!"
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