Quotes About Belief

She was brought up in the reformed Protestant Church but left it at the age of seventeen in protest against its restrictive rules.

You are not too old And it is not too late . . .

Aber glauben Sie an eine Liebe, die für Sie aufbewahrt wird wie eine Erbschaft, und vertrauen Sie, dass in dieser Liebe eine Kraft ist und ein Segen, aus dem Sie nicht herausgehen müssen, um ganz weit zu gehen!

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Religious practice in the Land of the Bible tends to encourage exclusivity and discrimination rather than love and magnanimity. There is no place like the Holy Land to make one cynical about religion.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

It was unbelievable, but perhaps only the unbelievable could be believed. Perhaps the truth was always a lie.

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand.

For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.

I had no doubt that I could do something, but what, and how? I had no contacts and I believed in nothing. And the obsession with my identity which I had developed in the factory hospital returned with a vengeance. Who was I, how had I come to be?

It was unbelievable, but perhaps only the unbelievable could be believed. Perhaps the truth was always a lie. Perhaps

An illusion was creating a counter-illusion. Where would it end? Did they believe their own propaganda? Afterwards

Well, few men love the truth or even regard facts so dearly as to let either one upset their picture of the world. Poor Galileo, poor John Jasper; they persecuted one and laughed at the other, but both were witnesses for the truth they professed.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.

Would you like to resurrect God to take responsibility?" He shook his head. "No, Brother, we have to make such decisions ourselves.

As Brother Jack had said, History makes harsh demands of us all. But they were demands that had to be met if men were to be the masters and not the victims of their times. Did I believe that? Perhaps I had already begun to pay.

Play the game, but don't believe in it—that much you owe yourself.

Well, few men love the truth or even regard facts so dearly as to let either one upset their picture of the world.

Perhaps the truth was always a lie.

a dime pierced with a nail hole so as to be worn about the ankle on a string for luck

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.