Quotes About Belief

The highest level of Christianity is total humility, total humility means not choosing the best, but letting the best chose you

My domestic partner describes me as having "penetrating sanity," but partly that's because he can sleep through anything, and partly it's because he believes in the power of suggestion.

Griffin's narrow, crooked smile held a hint of derision. "You are a romantic, then." "No. Not at all. But I hold out hope that others might be.

She had this chant, "All will be well, all will be well." I started to believe them, but the whole thing was a scam. It was just some stupid thing to say to make me believe life isn't unfair. And just when I thought life was perfect, it became unbearable again.

This isn't a nice story, and this isn't an easy story. But it is a story about fairies, so feel free to think of it as a fairy story. It's not like you'd believe it anyway.

Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the world and our place in it.

Anyway, while most people can't see fairies anyway because they don't believe in them, seeing them isn't a bad thing. Some of the most beautiful things I've ever seen have been fairies.

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

Certainty closes many doors," he replied. "It leads to dogmatism. Souls accept what they know and stop striving upwards.

I don't know what I think about Jesus, but I know what I think about Aslan.

what's real within the story is real within the story

Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary.

Maybe some of the masters really believed they could make it work, but I think what they really wanted wasn't to do it themselves but for somebody else to have made it real and for them to have been born there.

Morally, magic is just indefensible.

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic.

Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats. — João Guimarães Rosa, Tutaméia (Terceiras Estórias) Nova Fronteira; 8 edition (2009). Originally published January 1st 1976.

Vossignoria, osservi bene, vossignoria: la verità istantanea di un fatto, la gente poi la racconta, e nessuno ci crede. Pensano che è un falso raccontare. Adesso, io, io so come è tutto: le cose che accadono, è perché già si trovavano pronte, in un'altra aria, nella radice dell'unghia: e di fatto tutto è gratis quando succede, nell'ordinario di un momento.

Dunque, non so se ho venduto? Dico a vossignoria: la mia paura è questa. Non vendono tutti? Dico a vossignoria: il diavolo non esiste, non c'è, e a lui io ho venduto l'anima... La mia paura è questa. A chi l'ho venduta? La mia paura è questa, signor mio: allora, l'anima, uno se la vende, da solo, senza nessun compratore...

Magic is made not from outside but from inside. That was why people mentioned so much the need to have faith for things to happen, for after all, faith is nothing but a way to see the world that makes it possible for the things you wish to happen. Faith, therefore, is a knowledge.

He certainly knew that people who are excessively sure that there's only one way and one truth, a truth entirely known to them, are dangerous. . . . To know the truth and try to impose it on others, in a world where every thing changes and is cloaked under all kinds of appearances, is a serious madness.

If you think well, you'll see that nothing is by chance, but common sense, which is a way to bind conscience and shackle freedom, denies that and prefers to go on believing in old, worn-out truths.

Tudo neste mundo se consegue com trabalho e quem é preto consegue menos com muito mais trabalho, então tem de trabalhar multiplicado e trabalhar em todos os trabalhos e trabalhar o tempo todo e trabalhar sem distrair e sempre acreditar que alguém quer tomar o resultado do trabalho.

ao contrário do que se pensa, a magia não é feita de fora, mas de dentro. Por isso é que se fala tanto na necessidade de ter fé para que as coisas aconteçam, pois a fé, afinal, não passa de uma maneira de ver o mundo que torna possíveis aquelas coisas que se deseja que aconteçam. A fé, portanto, é um conhecimento [...]

Trees are swayed by winds, men by words.