Quotes About Belief

We humans have a nasty habit of deciding to believe that things we don't actually understand are explained in some way that we make up. And the next thing we know, we're killing each other over these imaginings.

Very quietly, hidden away from the scorn and disbelief of the people who cling to the old, dying reality, a new one is being born, and rich, fulfilling relationships between the living and what we call the dead are at the center of it.

Beliefs are walls. Questions are doors.

Our whole religious journey is, at its core, an effort to ensure that the death of the body does not mean annihilation.

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that!

Don't panic. If you write, you'll be a writer.

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.

my century..is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form….

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

I was asked something about the economic problem of Communism. I answered, citing Dostoyevsky: "The problem of Communism is not an economic problem. The problem of Communism is the problem of atheism.

Sometimes I do believe in predestination. I feel helpless to do anything but what I am compelled to do.

Bascal laughed. "You can't actually believe that, boyo. When was the last no-confidence vote in the Senate? The people of Earth were tired of responsibility; they forced it on my parents, and wouldn't take it back now even if they could.

but one of the things that drew me to science fiction and then into fantasy was how it rewarded me for using my imagination. And it wasn't just using my imagination to picture myself on a space station or riding a dragon;* it was using my imagination to visualize and believe in a world where the things that made me weird and awkward would actually make me cool and valuable.

Little Engines Can Do BIG Things

I was sitting in the Temple of Karnak on the Nile, as the sun was going down, and I was all alone, and the great Hypostyle Hall was full of shadows and ghosts of the past, and suddenly I heard this little voice saying "my name is Taita, write my story"… and if you believe that you'll believe anything.

We are all mere insects caught in the web that the gods spin for us.

We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.

The traditions evolve. Men's faith varies. God endures.

Die Massen in Bewegung zu setzen braucht's nur der Phrase eines Dummkopfs. Wie lange Zeit braucht der kluge Mann, um nur einen einzigen zu seiner Meinung zu bekehren!

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.