Quotes About Belief

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgement,' Gloria had said. 'It's the sum of all your judgements that counts.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.

Who had uttered these words? They had not frightened me. They were clearly audible to me yet I knew the did not ring out across the air like the chilling cough of the old man in the chair, They came from deep inside me, from my soul. Never before had I believed or suspected that I had a soul but just then I knew I had.

But the secret of it all-in-all,' continued the Sergeant, 'is the daily readings. Attend to your daily readings and your conscience will be as clear as a clean shirt on Sunday morning. I am a great believer in the daily readings.

Anything you do is a lie and nothing that happens to you is true.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.

There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown.

the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is a great, wonderful, powerful symbol. Her response was, "If it's only a symbol, to hell with it.

What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity...

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.

Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.