Quotes about Belief

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe

But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why there would be no end of divine things!

The lost are never saved by confessing and the saved are never restored by believing.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

You see, counselors, teachers, and various organizations may all agree with you that you are handicapped, but God never will. He loves giving you the opportunity to face what you fear, because when you face what you fear you become fearless.

It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of us who believes in God can understand why some people, given all the unjust suffering in the world, just cannot believe that there is a Providential Being.

I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I'm first to say that I talk a good game, but I don't know how good I am about it in practice.

A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day.

God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead.

Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached.

If it is true that the great missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that one who was not baptized was lost - and that explains their missionary commitment - in the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council, that conviction was definitely abandoned.