Quotes About Belief

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Focus on making yourself feel excited, powerful. Imagine yourself destroying goals with ease." "You have to believe that you can achieve anything." "You can become rich, you can become strong, you can take care of your loved ones and enjoy the fact that it will be very difficult.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

God help us all!" "He does, sir. God is an Englishman, after all.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

One person believes in sprites and visits the sacred grove, and another believes in Jesus and goes to the church. It's just a matter of fashion. There's no use in getting involved with just one god; they're more like brooches or pearls, just for decoration. For hanging around your neck, or for playing with.

Tõesti, kuidas see niimoodi olla saab, et inimesed pole siiamaani võinud uudistada mõnda Kalevipoja pilti, nii et nad peavad muuseumis vahtima kes teab mis kükloope ja kentaure ja Ristija Johannese maharaiutud pead! Siis pole ime, et me räägime omavahel saksa keeles. Mis rahvas me selline oleme, kui omaenese jumalad ja vägimehed ära unustame ning peame lohutust otsima portselanist hiirtest ja kilpkonnadest!

But do you know when stories stop being stories? The moment someone begins to believe in them.

You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods, including my Melitele, are merely a personification of this power invented for simpletons so they can understand it better, accept its existence. According to you, that power is blind. But for me, Geralt, faith allows you to expect what my goddess personifies from nature: order, law, goodness. And hope.

always takes action. Wrongly or rightly; that is revealed later. But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn't regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret.

Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any. But no one can escape his destiny.

But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn't regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret.

Don't you think"—he smiled—"that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?" "No, I don't. And do you know why?" "No." Nenneke leaned over and looked him in the eyes with a strange smile on her pale lips. "Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

Become a priest. You wouldn't be bad at it with all your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people and of everything. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem—I don't know many priests who do.

Destiny isn't the judgements of providence, isn't scrolls written by the hand of a demiurge, isn't fatalism. Destiny is hope. Being full of hope, believing that what is meant to happen will happen.

If people pay for something they believe in it: whatever is paid for becomes real and legal. The more expensive, the better.

I believe in the sword. As you can see, I carry two. Every witcher does. It's said, spitefully, the silver one is for monsters and the iron for humans. But that's wrong. As there are monsters which can be struck down only with a silver blade, so there are those for whom iron is lethal. And lola, not just any iron, it must come from a meteorite

I was watching them carefully, and I know people. They weren't lying." "No," the witcher agreed. "They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

Pero esas mentiras, aunque eran mentiras, no estaban pensadas para engañar.

Those are just stories, Codringher.' 'You're right: stories. But do you know when stories stop being stories? The moment someone begins to believe in them.

Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

I don't know,' said Geralt with effort. 'I don't know, Yurga. Sometimes it seems to me that I know. And sometimes I have doubts. Would you like your son to have doubts like that?' 'Why not?' the merchant said gravely. 'He might as well. For it's a human and a good thing.' 'What?' 'Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any. But no one can escape his destiny.

There's no such thing as devils!" yelled the poet, shaking the cat from sleep once and for all. "No such thing! To the devil with it, devils don't exist!" "True." Geralt smiled. "But, Dandilion, I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.

You did this because something – about which I know nothing – convinced you that destiny exists, holds sway over us, and guides us in everything we do.