Quotes About Belief

There are things in this world most of us never see," I find myself saying. "We've trained ourselves not to see them, or try to pretend we didn't if we do. But there's a reason why, no matter how sophisticated or primitive, every religion has demons.

Some call it prayer. And as with all prayers, it comes down to either asking someone else to fight for you, or asking yourself to fight.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? . . . Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. —Bram Stoker, Dracula

Let them abandon the utter fallacy,' he said, 'the grotesque, erroneous, fatal blunder of believing that by limiting the enterprise of man, by riveting the shackles of a false equality upon the efforts of all the different forms and different classes of human enterprise, they will increase the well-being of the world.

la ausencia de la fe cristiana había determinado que el credo churchilliano girase en torno al imperio británico.

The reverse side of Churchill's unquestioning belief in the greatness of the British race Ã¢â'¬â€œ which so fortified him in the Second World War Ã¢â'¬â€œ was his dangerous assumption of the inferiority of other races

The lack of a compass did not seem to concern him, as he would orient himself by the stars, one star in particular. 'Orion shone brightly,' he later recalled. 'Scarcely a year before he had guided me when lost in the desert to the banks of the Nile. He had given me water. Now he should lead me to freedom.' 79 People often believe in their stars in a general way; Churchill actually specified which one it was.

I am a child of the House of Commons,' he told the US Congress in December 1941. 'I was brought up in my father's house to believe in democracy. "Trust the people" – that was his message.

The public trusted him in 1940 not because they believed he had always, or even generally, been right – all too clearly he had not – but because they knew he had fought bravely for what he believed in, while many other, more self-serving politicians had not.

How few men are strong enough to stand against the prevailing currents of opinion!

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war', wrote the Irish literary essayist Robert Wilson Lynd, 'appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

But I didn't trust luck. Luck wasn't reliable.

shrugged. "I believe she exists. I just don't particularly believe in praying to someone who sets up a system that kills thousands of teenagers every year.

Except for one last thing. What if the people who believe in the cheap Internet appliance turn out to be right?

There is no question that having standards and believing in them and staffing an administrative unit objectively using forecasted workloads will help you to maintain and enhance productivity.

In order to build anything great, you have to be an optimist, because by definition you are trying to do something that most people would consider impossible. Optimists most certainly do not listen to leading indicators of bad news.

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

If I could pray--and I'd stopped doing that nonsense long before the miracle of the refrigerator--I imagined praying, but I didn't know who to direct it to.

Santa Claus is a lie but if you think that's bad, check out what 'fuck' really means.

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.

I think one of the mistakes many of us (including myself) make when speaking with atheists, agnostics, or any person who does not share our faith is to believe that we can argue them into seeing the truth. I do not believe this is possible. I have never known anyone who was successfully argued into a true, lasting faith.