Quotes About Belief

holding tight / to their pocketbooks / at the pearly gates / just in case.

I have begun to believe in, and even to preach, a poetry of necessity. This is a recognition not just of the necessity of poetry to our lives, but also the fact that necessity is what drives most of the poetry that matters, or the way that it matters.

I have a political attitude, but I'm certainly not a politician.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

The Quran explains: Whosoever holds on to Allah, he has already been guided onto a Straight Way. [Al Imran 3: 101.] CHARACTERISTICS

once you come to the Qur'?n as the first believers did, it may reveal to you as it did to them, make partners of you as it did of them. And only then, instead of being a mere revered book, a sacred fossil, or a

And all the mumbo-jumbo of reincarnation. Man into ox into ape into beetle into eight million four hundred thousand kinds of animate things. Proof? We do not go in for such pedestrian pastimes as proof! That is Western. We are of the mysterious East. No proof, just faith. No reason, just faith.

Jahaan mein ahle-eemaan soorat-e-khursheed jeetay hain, Idhar doobey, udhar nikley; udhar doobey, idhar niklay. In this world men of faith and self-confidence are    like the sun, They go down on one side to come up on the other.

The philosophy of religion has always been death-oriented instead of being life-oriented.

There are many ways of attaining godhood, say teachers of religion. Acharya Rajneesh disagrees and says there is only one way, and sexual intercourse is the first step towards it. He maintains that religion as it is practised, is false, and its propagators are agents of Satan. They have degraded love and taught us the negation of life. The philosophy of religion has always been death-oriented instead of being life-oriented.

Yahan khuda hai, wahan khuda hai... idhar khuda hai, udhar khuda hai... jahan nahin khuda hain, wahan kal khudega... Contributed

How do you know I'm a romanticist?" Like most romanticists Anwar too prided himself on being a realist.

Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.

Ask a man enough questions, and his belief in his understanding fades before him as does a dream upon waking—unless it is a true understanding.

His faith was no game he played. It was not a mantle to put on or be taken off as the need arose. The stories he took so literally he held dearer than his own life and he could not doubt them. Doubt would have destroyed him. I had no desire to destroy a foolish old man who suffered a fatal ignorance.

people believe what they are told. I believe nothing, consider everything.

I always trust my gut reaction it's always right.

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

Do not kneel," said Claire Jurat in a voice like thunder, like earths breaking and stars forming. "No more gods.