Quotes About Belief

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192

wanted—I needed—to know that I had indeed seen him, not some apparition conjured up by the Crawler, and I clutched at anything that would help me believe that. What convinced me the most wasn't the photograph—it was the sample the anthropologist had taken from the edge of the Crawler, the sample that had proven to be human brain tissue.

Per il momento voglio crederti. Voglio crederti perché in realtà non ho scelta. Non ho una teoria migliore.

In some unquantifiable way, too, you believe Lowry's approach is pushing the Southern Reach farther away from the answers. Like an astronaut headed into the oblivion of vast and empty space who, in flailing about, only speeds up the moment when he is beyond rescue.

Funny how even then, as systems failed, flickered out, institutions revealed as paper thin, that so many couldn't bring themselves to believe in anything. That it helped if you didn't. Better to observe the rituals, use the catchphrases. Share your concern.

At least, that's what he chose to believe. To have a reason for his packing, and a place to think of as a sanctuary. Or a hiding place.

Now he would inhabit the very center of corridors. He would put no hand to any surface. He would believe like a ghost that knew if it made contact with anyone or anything its touch would slide through and that creature would then know that it existed in a state of purgatory.

Because Control knew that belief in a scientific process only took you so far. The ziggurats of illogic erected by your average domestic terrorist as he or she bought the fertiliser or made a detonator took on their own teetering momentum and power. When those towers crashed to the earth, they still existed whole in the perpetrator's mind, and everyone else's too – just for different reasons.

Wick spoke in such alchemies and distillations of hope that I couldn't pick out the facts from the fictions, or which he told me to reassure himself.

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

God is eagerly waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as he always has. But he can't if you don't pray, and he can't if you don't dream. In short, he can't if you don't believe.

Don't stop giving sincere compliments when the student seems to be rejecting you—you are being tested to see if you can hold up to a bit of rejection. Some students will reject you before you can reject them. Don't let their attitude change your attitude of appreciation. They have to know that you believe that they can be successful in the culture.

Where there is no gospel, there is no church!

Por lo tanto, el hecho de que Abraham sea justificado por la fe, sin la circuncisión, muestra cómo puede ser el padre de todos los que son justificados por la fe (con o sin la circuncisión).

Y si Cristo es el heredero universal de Abraham, entonces todos los que están unidos a Cristo por medio de la fe, tanto los judíos creyentes como los gentiles creyentes, están unidos a la herencia completa de Abraham: «Y si sois de Cristo, entonces sois descendencia de Abraham, herederos según la promesa» (Gál. 3:29).

Faith is the only reasonable response to the truth.

Though faith is not illogical, it trusts God even when it cannot fully make sense of all the data at hand.

Only God's Word does not contradict itself.

Since it's common for me to have errors in judgment, why then would I trust my own judgment over and above the judgment of God? If God has proven Himself to be God, it is absurd for me not to trust Him.