Quotes About Belief

We don't say cannot here at Shadowfell,' Tali put in firmly, silencing him. 'And we don't say impossible.

But there was no defeating evil unless people had hope. There was no going forward unless folk held on to their belief that the future could be bright, that a lamp of goodness could still shine in this realm of darkness and despair. And, although it would be far easier to curl up and hide, as many of the Good Folk had done, there would never be change unless people were prepared to take risks, to step forward and fight for a better world.

Not every man is a liar, some of them, yes. Not all of them. There are good men out there, men who respect women, men with the courage to stand up for what they believe in. Men who'll be gentle with a newborn babe. Men who'll defend family and land and country with their dying breath.

The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.

No idea is as absurd as the idea of progress.

Es wird nicht mehr die Idee sein, die Wert und Macht einem Individuum gibt, sondern das Individuum, das Wert, Macht und Rechtfertigung einer Idee gibt.

part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

A cautionary tale I had carried with me from China, and which I firmly believed, was that anyone who attempted to have a foreign lover would be drugged and carted back to China in a jute sack.

Where there is a will to condemn, there is evidence.

This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.

I think all women believe adultery is a betrayal of themselves as women, while many men, in my experience, think of it as an endorsement of their true natures.

A charm has only as much power as one puts into it./ I wear it because it is such a pretty thing./ And the person who gave it to me/ cared enough for my protection:/ a reason greater than any faith.

Quoting Scripture texts is different than shaping a worldview around them.

Unable to suspect others, unable to believe in others, one would to live in a suspended state, a state of bankrupt human relations, as if one were looking into a mirror that reflects nothing.

This crazy, blind beating of wings caused by man-made light... this irrational connection between spiders, moths and light. If a law appeared without reason, like this, what would one believe in?

The world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness.

speranÅ£ele aveau s? moar? otr?vite de îndoielile lui.

The pleasure of deceiving would fade to a shadow before the anxiety of being deceived.

it would be well if I believed the child's eyes with complete confidence. Wouldn't anybody first have to return to this kind of intuition if he sincerely wanted to face others?

I could make nothing of the terribly vague answers I got, which I could believe or doubt as I liked.

Lady, the Faith is here," he stated. "But we must build churches in our hearts, for surely those built in the world have all betrayed us.

True believers aren't real receptive to the idea that what they're telling you is just mythology.

Aber sie halten es für eine Legende!' 'Weil sie es dafür halten wollen. Vielleicht würden sich manche Märchen und Mythen als wahr herausstellen, wenn nur jemand den Mut aufbrächte, in einem Brunnen nach einer goldenen Kugel zu suchen oder die Dornenhecke vor einem Schloss zu zerschneiden.