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Belief Quotes
"God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think."
"But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice."
"It is interesting indeed that some people think they are right to force others into believing what they believe."
"If Aliosha had come to the conclusion that neither God nor immortality existed, he would immediately have become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not only a question of the working classes; it is above all, in its contemporary incarnation, a question of atheism, a question of the tower of Babel, which is constructed without God's help, not to reach to the heavens, but to bring the heavens down to earth."
"Wrong belief is what bites one from the inside. There is no one biting him on the outside."
"Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "I can't remember. Which?" "Do you know what those words mean?" "Not really." "An optimist is positive and hopeful. A pessimist is negative and cynical." "I'm an optimist." "Well, that's good, because there's no irrefutable evidence. There's nothing that could convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. But there is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to."
"How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?"
"I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further."
"Think about how far you have come, and how far that you desire to go, and then say to yourself with full conviction, 'It's very possible with God on my side."
"Belief is exclusively a matter of personal domain. It has nothing to do with reality."
"Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand."
"The strong belief can make things out of imagination.But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales."
"Whatever you believe in, is true " at least to you! The question is, "How positive and empowering is it, especially in the face of adversity?"
"If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs,it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence."
"Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position."
"There are certain moments in life of open-minded people...which really make them hard not to believe in the existence of heaven."
"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."
"A skeptical man with a credo, 'Seeing is believing'. One day he found something so alien and said, 'I can't believe what I just saw'. Then the other man with different credo, 'Blessed are they who believe without seeing'. One day he found something so alien and said,'This is blasphemy, sinful and evil'."
"One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't."
"If one is destined to go wrong, he will not believe the truth but will believe something else altogether."
"Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day."
"You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day."
"Truth is in all our hearts. He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God."
"Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can.People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way."
"Your dreams will only take you as far as your faith in them."
"It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potential moral units- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coat-tails."
"There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'."
"When others in doubt, your strong belief steers."
"The entire world is surviving only due to 'beliefs', not because of 'Knowledge' (Gnan). Every human being is (living) only because of beliefs."
"No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high."
"A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer, that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man..."
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