Orson Scott Card Quotes

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Faith is Doubt.

As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

GIVE ME YOUR REASON TO BELIeVE

I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.

I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.

When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

Believing requires action.

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.

I try to act out of faith.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.