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• Given - and this is the fundamental thing - that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere and repentant heart, the question for those who do not believe in God is to abide by their own conscience. There is sin, also for those who have no faith, in going against one's conscience. Listening to it and abiding by it means making up one's mind about what is good and evil.

  Pope Francis

  Integrity, Believe, Heart

  "Pope Francis tells atheists to abide by their own consciences". Interview with Scalfari, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2013.

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• It was man who first made men believe in gods.

  Critias

  Fear, Believe, Men

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• I believe in God, who can respond to prayers, to whom we can give trust and without whom life on this earth would be without meaning (a tale told by an idiot). I believe that God has revealed Himself to us in many ways and through many men and women, and that for us here in the West the clearest revelation is through Jesus and those that have followed him.

  Nevill Francis Mott

  Jesus, Prayer, Believe

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• I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

  Ernest Gaines

  Religious, Believe, Men

  Interview with Bob Faw, www.pbs.org. February 18, 2011.

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• How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

  Bernard Malamud

  Believe, Stranger, Ifs

  Bernard Malamud (1973). “Rembrandt's Hat”, p.8, Macmillan

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• An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant; before the idol men remain dependent children, before God they are burdened and at the same time liberated to participate in the decisions of endless creation.

  Arthur Miller

  God, Children, Believe

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• Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.

  Blaise Pascal

  God, Believe, Four

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• People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.

  Lee Greenwood

  Believe, People, May

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• A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Believe, Men, Tragedy

  1929 The Modern Temper,'The Tragic Fallacy'.

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• There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

  Timothy Keller

  Hurt, Real, Believe

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• I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.

  Edith Wharton

  Believe, Saint, Don't Believe

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• I think there are times when I believe God welcomes the circus into our lives to give us an opportunity to show that there’s another way to live and respond to things.

  Tony Dungy

  Believe, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Atheists does not believe in God. God also does not believe in Atheists

  David Asscherick

  Atheist, Believe, Doe

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• And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Believe, Today, I Believe

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

  "Hindu Dharma".

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• One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Men, Praying

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• I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Atheist, Believe, People

  Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House

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• On Sunday morning I went out for a while in the neighbourhood; I bought some raisin bread. The day was warm but a little sad, as Sundays often are in Paris, especially when one doesn't believe in God.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Morning, Believe, Sunday

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever”, p.126, Profile Books

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• I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.

  William Daniel Phillips

  Believe, Atheism, Consistent

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• The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Believe, Easy

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• I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.

  Tracey Gold

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

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• I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids. They love it, and when they say, 'Are we Jewish?' or 'Are we Catholic?' I say, 'Well, I'm not, but you can choose when you're 18. But isn't this fun that we do seders and the Advent calendar?'

  Jodie Foster

  Atheist, Fun, Believe

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• When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but if there were and so tomorrow we woke up to find no more believers on earth, no more devout Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, why then, sure the beauty of the stories would be a thing we could focus on because they wouldn't be dangerous any more, they would become capable of compelling the only belief that leads to truth, that is, the willing, disbelieving of the reader in a well-told tale.

  Salman Rushdie

  Christian, Believe, Focus

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• Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.

  Tom Stoppard

  Believe, Valentine, Struggle

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.96, Faber & Faber

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• She flashes me a smile so devastating that it could even make an atheist believe in God.

  Sonya Sones

  Atheist, Believe, Flash

  Sonya Sones (2007). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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