#belief

"You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true."

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"Belief creates the actual fact."

"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."

"I have a lot of faith. I mean, I believe I do."

"What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts."

"Faith to me is trusting in every evidence that something is―that it is possible, that it is significant, that it is real."

"If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far."

"There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group."

"Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......"

"Mithorden said it well,"she said finally. "It's worshipping death. They say they follow light. But, in the end, they're really following desolation, division, the end of things. You should hear their prophecies -- war, destruction, only special chosen people are spared."She felt sad and angry. Worse, she wondered to what ends people who believed these things would go to assert their views."

"Many were the steps taken in doubt, that saw their shapeless ends in no time. Those who travail in faith today will truimph in joy tomorrow. Let faith lead the way."

"I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in."

"We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt."

"What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is."

"I think a funny picture would have a caption that read, “Believe in yourself,” with an accompanying image of a wilting flower."

"Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival."

"In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not..."

"The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us."

"Belief means not wanting to know what is true."