Quotes About Belief

In a moment of vision, he saw that, for him, here was the last of the heroes, the last of those giants to whom we give the faith of our youth, believing like children that the riddle of our lives may be solved by their quiet judgment.

Purgatory was a bit damp,' said Bengt, 'but heaven was more or less as I'd imagined it.

We are critical of the priests who burned the paper books of the Aztecs because contemporary Europe looked down upon the non-Christian Americans and wanted to destroy their heathen beliefs. But we ourselves have so little esteem for these same beliefs that although the most important ones were recorded by the early Spaniards, we reject them as the fables of primitive nations.

Purgatory was a bit damp, said Bengt, but heaven is more or less as I'd imagined it.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been I have great faith in a seed

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous.

As a corollary, they (Greek intellectuals) believed that knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. And it is not as if we were the first to make this law, or to act upon it when made: we found it existing before us, and shall leave it to exist for ever after us; all we do is to make use of it, knowing that you and everybody else, having the same power as we have, would do the same as we do.

I hate that word, CAN'T. I wish it had never been dreamed up, spoken, or defined. I wish the concept of CAN'T could be eradicated not only from language, but more importantly from the psyche of a girl who I know is filled with so much CAN it seeps out of her pores and scents the air.

My instincts have never lies to me.

My instincts have never lied to me.

And Tracy was young, just twenty, still wet behind the ears, and the old blinders were on him so he couldn't really see what was around and he believed the bull about freedomofopportunity and a chancetorise and ifyoureallywanttoworkyoucanalwaysfindajob and ruggedindividualism and something about pursuitofhappiness.

Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.

While it was considered a risky move, I have always believed that faith and risk are synonymous. If there is no risk you don't need faith. The nature of faith is to put yourself on the line, and I have never taken myself too seriously.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Death came, in such a place, or it didn't. That was in God's hands.

The experimental subjects found it much easier to argue against positions they disliked than in favor of those they supported. There was a special power in doubt. Doubt

I worry about a world in which many people will believe anything, but I worry far more about one in which people believe nothing beyond their own preconceptions.

He moved instead to an investment strategy that required no great macroeconomic insight. Instead, he explained, "As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.

Doctors persisted with bloodletting for three hundred years after Van Helmont challenged them to prove that their technique worked. In

Until kids find something worth dying for, they don't have anything worth living for.

The issue isn't--nor should it ever be--how weak our child is, but rather how strong our God is.

Calling a child rebellious has the equivalent effect of calling a child that is struggling in school stupid. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

They believe that the loved ones who have passed on are somehow looking down from heaven and watching out for them. All of that may feel nice, but there is no biblical basis for assuming it's true.