Quotes About Belief

it is impossible to reason people out of affiliations they have not been reasoned into.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

A good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we prefer looking after them for Him.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Those who still profess the rule of hope, teach optimism only by force of habit, without believing in what they say.

What is the use of working out chances? There are no chances against God.

we have only to remember that disease happens to man in order not to lose all hope.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

También era un alma piadosa, con esa fe de Flandes donde subsiste un poco del catolicismo español, esa fe en la que el terror y los escrúpulos pesan más que la confianza, y que siente más miedo del infierno que nostalgia del cielo". "Brujas la muerta" (1892), capítulo VIII, p. 64.

The myths are not descriptions of things but expressions of a determination to act

Somewhere in the Andes, they believe to this very day that the future is behind you. It comes up from behind your back, surprising and unforeseeable, while the past is always before your eyes, that which has already happened. When they talk about the past, the people of the Aymara tribe point in front of them. You walk forward facing the past and you turn back toward the future.

Your grandmother had an icon, your mother had a little portrait of Lenin, and you have your TV.

If no one remembers becomes the equivalent of If there is no God. If there is no God, Dostoyevsky said, then everything is permitted.

In the end she'd decided it wasn't God she questioned so much as His organized believers.

If you take anything away from this class, I want it to be the belief that cooperative, mutually beneficial change is still possible between big business and environmental interests.

I think that life is a bit like a biscuit that you only get one bite at. The best thing is to just go for it. If you feel an inclination for something, just go for it. Life is too short to muck about doubting yourself. It's better to try and just shore yourself up with some sort of confidence. And get on with it!

My dad's supportive of all my endeavors.

I decided to accept as true my own thinking.

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.