Lack Of Belief Quotes

#1. The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.

Margaret Mead

#2. Trapped in limbo, believing in a lack of belief, but not necessarily lacking the belief to believe.

Ian Rankin

#3. We are so trained into believing the worst, into thinking some people are beyond hope. What if it's our lack of belief that makes people hopeless? What if we can change the world just by hoping for the best instead of settling for the worst?

Marilyn Grey

#4. Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims.

George H. Smith

#5. Perhaps the thought of going to hell doesn't alarm you, because you don't believe in it. That may be your belief, but if hell exists, your lack of belief won't make it go away. Standing on a freeway and saying, "I don't believe in trucks" won't make the 18-wheeler disappear.

Kirk Cameron

#6. The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Lillian Smith

#7. Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe in) something. Once you claim to know
something, you can't call that a lack of belief in the opposite view
and then say it's the place that you started.

Lewis N. Roe

#8. We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things.

Rachel Cohn

#9. Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.

Ricky Gervais

#10. The Gospel is a declaration of something totally finished apart from our agreement or vote. Inside that declaration is an ongoing and relentless invitation to deepening relationship but any lack of belief or participation on our part has no power to negate the accomplished truth of that declaration.

William P. Young

#11. The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

Arthur L. Williams Jr.

#12. Basic atheism is not a belief. It is the lack of belief. There is a difference between believing there is no god and not believing there is a god - both are atheistic, though popular usage has ignored the latter.

Dan Barker

#13. Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.

Jean Vanier

#14. What's keeping you from being rich? In most cases it's simply a lack of belief. In order to become rich, you must believe you can do it, and you must take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.

Suze Orman

#15. The worst handicap you can have is a lack of belief in yourself!

Lani Deauville

Bette Lee Crosby

#16. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Milton Friedman

#17. I think what teenagers lack is the belief that they can be unique and extraordinary in life. Make the most of your age because you're not going to be a teenager forever!

Sabirul Islam

#18. Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Richard Dawkins

#19. In response to a letter regarding the writer's lack of religious belief:
The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

Abigail Van Buren

#20. It's not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it's a lack of faith within me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.

Alister E. McGrath

#22. We can look at any experience in two ways: through the eyes of lack, or the eyes of plenty. Fear sees limits, while love sees possibilities. Each attitude will be justified by the belief system you cherish. Change your allegiance from fear to love, and love will sustain you wherever you walk.

Alan Cohen

#23. Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. Zen is the complete absence of belief. Zen is the complete lack of authority.

Brad Warner

#25. The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#26. Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.

Greg Graffin

#27. I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own - they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#28. History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

Geoffrey Elton

#29. It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

Nancy Gibbs

#30. You can only know what you know. Belief is not the same as knowledge. Belief is an assumption of knowledge despite a lack of evidence.

Todd Lockwood

#31. Every single human civilization has failed over time, and my belief is that it's due to a lack of rational empathy, of understanding that if you don't have equality in your society, the conflicts you breed (whether internally or externally) will eventually cause its collapse.

Chris Kluwe

#32. Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.

T.F. Hodge

#33. The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden ... A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.

C.S. Lewis

#34. Hah! None of that matters, lad. God believes in you. Your belief or lack of it doesn't change His existence.

Michelle Griep

#35. It is my belief that love dies from overuse, and the heart dies from a lack of interest in life without it.

Abigail Brown

#36. For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

James Rouse

#37. I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue. That's where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.

Michele Bachmann