#belief

"You may find that knowledge is not so great a thing as belief or hope."

"Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector."

"I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred."

"I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like."

"In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!""And what if you do get a second chance?""You take it!"

"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."

"If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?"

"The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God."

"I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them."

"belief is the death of intelligence."

"Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy."

"Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ."

"It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!"

"We are not our mind or our thoughts. As long as we believe we are our mind, we are open to third-party control."

"The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe."

"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."

"Create your own path.Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the "M"is silent."

"fight for what you believe in,for if you don't you will be forever fighting against yourself."

"we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood"

"What is false about hope?"