Quotes About Belief

I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, "Your next book will never be published -- would you still write it?" If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing.

Brothers, if we believe that we shall arise, already we have arisen. What should we be without faith? Not to us, as to other nations, has a country been given to which we may cling; a home, where we may tarry; rest, that our hearts may wax fat! Not for peace have we been the chosen among the nations. Wandering is our habitation, trouble our heritage, God our home.

Lo que está pasando ahora, lo que podemos llamar la crisis de la democracia, es el colapso de la confianza. La creencia de que los líderes no solo son corruptos o estúpidos, sino que son incapaces.

Still—nowadays, the most impossible things are possible.

How could I disbelieve? Charms are in our destiny.

One cannot exchange ideas with a rational person any more than one can argue with a religious fanatic.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true

Once he'd realized how the t'landa Til ability could be utilized, it had been a simple matter for Aruk to make up some doctrine, compose a few hymns, and write several chants and litanies. And that was all it took to produce a "religion" that credulous fools belonging to inferior species could embrace.

She likes to think this is a real memory, but she doesn't know that she isn't making it up.

The pervasive attitude of fatalism among Indians of all classes was yet another factor affecting the spirit of Indian armies—victory and defeat were not in their hands, they believed; whatever was destined to happen would happen. This

But what is unjust? That depends on a person's thoughts, values, and beliefs. People differ sharply on what is just or unjust in this world. Thus, some people become angry much quicker than others.

Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living . What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Awe rather than faith is the cardinal attitude of the religious Jew.

To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the essence of faith is memory. To believe is to remember.

The grand premise of religion is that man is able to surpass himself; that man who is part of this world may

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

This was a religious problem, my father felt; people can want to be deceived. Do not deceive, the Kotzker rebbe insisted, and that also means do not deceive oneself by being gullible.

We must never forget that there is a higher truth than the one we are able to comprehend at first sight.

The central commandment is in relation to the person. But religion today has lost sight of the person. Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. It has fallen victim to the belief that the real is only that which is capable of being registered by fact-finding surveys.

philosophy of religion comes into being when both religion and philosophy claim to offer ideas about ultimate problems.