The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.
I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.
It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.
