Quotes About Belief

In the Bible, man is only free to submit or be damned. His one freedom is the renunciation of that freedom. He finds his "salvation" by freely accepting his subjugation. The Christian ideal, says Saint Paul, is to be freely "subservient to God" (Romans 6:22).

Nor is there any valid reason to reject the idea of God or the notion of the sacred just because of the sickly expression Christianity has given to them, any more than it is necessary to break with aristocratic principles on the pretext that they have been caricatured by the bourgeoisie.

One can have a society without God," writes Régis Debray, "but there cannot be a society without religion." He adds, "Those nations on the way to disbelief are on the path to abdication." One can also cite Georges Bataille, according to whom, "religion, whose essence is the search for lost intimacy, boils down to a clearly conscious effort to become entirely self-conscious.

As man has managed to turn himself into a player of the world, the sole thing that can now prevent him from using all his possibilities of playing, is to make him believe that he did not invent the rules of the game.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

it could be selling you anything. It could be a cult religion that could separate you from friends and family, or a quack medicine that could leave you paralyzed, or bogus political information that causes you to elect a numbskull to the presidency. God forbid.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is."

But God, whatever else He is, and of course He is everything else, is not a fool.

No land is more beautiful, and therefore more powerful. That is what I believe in, Aouli. I believe in Hawai'i. I believe in the land." -Haleola

The few poignant moments before the battle, before the gas chamber... these little meetings of kindred spirits, without a past to give them guidance or a future to give them hope, they would find a measure of peace and coherence to lend a reason to the farcical affairs of mankind. Man, in all his wild adventures, had not, as yet, discovered a substitute for faith.

L'angelo sa di essere indistruttibile. Paradossalmente, è proprio questa sua certezza che lo rende tale.

It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important then proving anything to anyone

To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

This seems scientific and disarmingly undogmatic, but it ignores the fact that it is impossible to prove something doesn't exist.

A four-year-old may believe that her thoughts also have the power to affect what happens to others, and so she will feel guilty should misfortune befall someone about whom she has had an angry thought.

It is a startling thing, the need to feel utterly believed.