Quotes About Belief

My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.

He lives in a small country of hope, which is his heart.

A stranger is someone who sits very still at the kitchen table, looks down at his knuckles, thinks some day we will laugh about this, doesn't believe it.

Fiction forms what streams in us. Naturally it is suspect.

not to believe, that is, in the story of his own life. Bold move.

I couldn't understand the mindless acceptance of dogma, an acceptance people were quick to call faith.

Our spiritual journey is—or ought to be—a deepening realization of the possibility of sainthood in all of us.

Somewhere along the line, I had bought into the idea, so pervasive in evangelical culture, that reading the right books and listening to the right music will make you ("inspire you to be") a better Christian. Somehow, I had confused the trappings of faith with faith itself.

I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find-- blood, nails, a bit of anguish.

Boyd loved an inaccuracy, for example, because an inaccuracy could render everything else you said void. It

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news! The good news is that you really don't know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is!

Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery

his belief that the Orthodox Church is once again little more than a corrupt government asset.

For him, the resurrection of the church means the resurrection of Russia.

Love takes a leap of faith. It's an act of courage.

Not a bit. I don't hold with all that 'sins of the father' nonsense.

For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 2 CORINTHIANS 2:15

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. JOHN 6:44