On the Day when (some) faces will be whitened and (some) faces will be blackened; and as for those whose faces have been blackened, it will be said unto them: Disbelieved ye after your (profession of) belief? Then taste the punishment for that ye disbelieved.
O ye who believe! Take not for intimates others than your own folk, who would spare no pains to ruin you; they love to hamper you. Hatred is revealed by (the utterance of) their mouths, but that which their breasts hide is greater. We have made plain for you the revelations if ye will understand.
Their cry was only that they said: Our Lord! forgive us for our sins and wasted efforts, make our foothold sure, and give us victory over the disbelieving folk.
O ye who believe! if ye obey those who disbelieve, they will make you turn back on your heels, and ye turn back as losers.
We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve because they ascribe unto Allah partners, for which no warrant hath been revealed. Their habitation is the Fire, and hapless the abode of the wrong-doers.
O ye who believe! Be not as those who disbelieved and said of their brethren who went abroad in the land or were fighting in the field: If they had been (here) with us they would not have died or been killed: that Allah may make it anguish in their hearts. Allah giveth life and causeth death; and Allah is Seer of what ye do. Koran 3:90&91& 98-102&106&118&147&149&151&156
O ye who believe! Be ye staunch in justice, witnesses for Allah, even though it be against yourselves or (your) parents or (your) kindred, whether (the case be of) a rich man or a poor man, for Allah is nearer unto both (them ye are). So follow not passion lest ye lapse (from truth) and if ye lapse or fall away, then lo! Allah is ever Informed of what ye do.
O ye who believe! Believe in Allah and His messenger and the Scripture which He hath revealed unto His messenger, and the Scripture which He revealed aforetime. Whoso disbelieveth in Allah and His angels and His scriptures and His messengers and the Last Day, he verily hath wandered far astray.
Lo! those who believe, then disbelieve and then (again) believe, then disbelieve, and then increase in disbelief, Allah will never pardon them, nor will He guide them unto a way.
O ye who believe! Choose not disbelievers for (your) friends in place of believers. Would ye give Allah a clear warrant against you?
Lo! those who disbelieve in Allah and His messengers, and seek to make distinction between Allah and His messengers, and say: We believe in some and disbelieve in others, and seek to choose a way in between;
Such are disbelievers in truth; and for disbelievers We prepare a shameful doom. Koran 4:135-137&144&150&151
O ye who believe! Obey Allah and His messenger, and turn not away from him when ye hear (him speak). Koran 8:20
Those who believe, and have left their homes and striven with their wealth and their lives in Allah’s way are of much greater worth in Allah's sight. These are they who are triumphant. Koran 9:20
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. Aeschylus
It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists. Mohandas Gandhi
I can’t prove it, but I’m pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can’t prove. Randolph M Nesse
The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called ‘faith’. Robert G Ingersoll, On the Gods and Other Essays
I will not punish my people for their beliefs, only for their deeds. Elizabeth: The Golden Age 2007 starring Cate Blanchett & Geoffrey Rush & Clive Owen & Abbie Cornish & Samantha Morton & Jordi Molla & Susan Lynch & Rhys Ifans & Eddie Redmayne & Tom Hollander & David Threlfall & Adam Godley & Laurence Fox & William Houston et al, director Shekhar Kapur, Elizabeth
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume
If I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery. William Kingdon Clifford, The Scientific Basis of Morals 1884
What is there to believe in? All I see is decay. Dorian Gray 2009 starring Ben Barnes & Colin Firth & Ben Chaplin & Rachel Hurd-Wood & Johnny Harris & Rebecca Hall & Emilia Fox & Fiona Shaw & Maryan d'Abo & Caoline Goodall et al, director Oliver Parker, Dorian
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. Marlene Dietrich
We can’t interfere with people’s beliefs. Carrie 1977 starring Sissy Spacek & John Travolta & Piper Laurie & Amy Irving & William Katt & Nancy Allen Betty Buckley & P J Soles & Sydney Lassick & Stefan Gierasch & Priscilla Pointer et al, director Brian dePalma, headmaster
The children are wandering through the wilderness of sins these days. ibid. mother from hell
An ideology is a group of beliefs and disbeliefs (rejections) expressed in value sentences, appeal sentences and explanatory statements ... designed to serve on a relatively permanent basis a group of people to justify in reliance on moral norms and a modicum of factual evidence and self-consciously rational coherence the legitimacy of the implementation and technical prescriptions which are to ensure concerted action for the preservation, reform, destruction or reconstruction of a given order. Allen & Unwig, Ideology and Politics pp119-120
Rumpole: Don’t you believe in God?
Accused: I suppose He’s a possibility. He just doesn’t seem to be a very frequent visitor to the East Grim Rep. Rumpole of the Bailey s2e3, Rumpole and the Show Folk, accused, ITV 1980
Belief is so often the death of reason. Game of Thrones s5e8: Hardhome, HBO 2015
I believe it because I want to believe it. Lost Horizon 1937 ***** starring Ronald Colman & Jane Wyatt & H B Warner & Sam Jaffe & John Howard & Edward Everett Horton & Thomas Mitchell & Margo & Isabel Jewell & David Clyde & David Torrence et al, director Frank Capra, Lord Gainsford in London
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. George Norman Douglas
The vicar doesn’t believe it himself; he only pretends to ... because he wishes to live without working himself ... Most of the idlers know that what the vicar says is not true, but they pretend to believe it, and give him money for saying it, because they want him to go on telling it to the workers so that they will go on working and keep quiet and be afraid to think for themselves. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
But although he reasoned like this, Owen could not help longing for something to believe, for some hope for the future; something to compensate for the unhappiness of the present. ibid.
But no one really believed this; and as for those who pretended to do so – their lives showed that they did not believe it at all. Their greed and inhumanity – their ferocious determination to secure for themselves the good things of this world – were conclusive proofs of their hypocrisy and infidelity. ibid.
The reason I don’t believe in God is because I’ve never found one who’s up to my high moral standards. anon
It’s because I take you seriously that I can’t bring myself to belief in you. Julia Sweeney, Letting Go of God
‘Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason; The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions; One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone; The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own; Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs; People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused; Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word. Hail, Satan? 2019, seven tenets of belief of Satanic Temple
I believe — that the Lord God created the universe.
I believe — that He sent His only Son to die for my sins.
And I believe — that ancient Jews built boats and sailed to America.
I am a Mormon
And a Mormon just believes. The Book of Mormon Musical: I Believe