Quotes About Belief

I know everything's alright but I want proof and the Buddhas and the Virgin Marys are there reminding me of the solemn pledge of faith in this harsh and stupid earth where we rage our so-called lives in a sea of worry, meat for Chicagos of Graves - right this minute my very father and my very brother lie side by side in mud in the North and I'm supposed to be smarter than they are - being quick I am dead.

Troubles, you see, is the generalization-word for what God exists in.

You have to believe in life before you can accomplish anything.

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?…

I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middleclass philosophy out of it.

And of course now no one can tell us that there is no God. We've passed through all forms. You remember, Sal, when I first came to New York and I wanted Chad King to teach me about Nietzsche. You see how long ago? Everything is fine, God exists, we know time. Everything since the Greeks has been predicted wrong. You can't make it with geometry and geometrical systems of thinking. It's all this!

Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.

I would never write if I did not believe in the idea of living.

Someone once said to me that if you want to make God laugh, just tell him your plans. Just tell him who you are.

in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

They, as a class, believed that they alone maintained civilization.

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

Drink, says the White Logic. The Greeks believed that the gods gave them wine so that they might forget the miserableness of existence.

Hers was that common insularity of mind that makes human creatures believe that their color, creed, and politics are best and right and that other human creatures scattered over the world are less fortunately placed than they.

He talked to White Fang as White Fang had never been talked to before. He talked softly and soothingly, with a gentleness that somehow, somewhere, touched White Fang. In spite of himself and all the pricking warnings of his instinct, White Fang began to have confidence in this god. He had a feeling of security that was belied by all his experience with men.

Lots of people feel that I am a fake. But I know that my smile and twinkle exist, reflecting the glow of my creator.

I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the real events of the world into something that offers us hope - and I believe in that.

Latto is like 'Lotto,' but my little twist on it. It's good fortune - I got '777' tatted on me. I live this.

I believe religion is a branch of spirituality, often misinterpreted and twisted to suit people's ideas. In truth, religion and spirituality are meant to co-exist happily.

I never pursued anything in terms of performing comedy until I was in my twenties. I was basically forced into it by a couple of my friends who were starting a sketch troupe and thought I'd be good at it. I was kind of terrified by it, but I gave it a try. I am so grateful to those guys for believing in me and viciously twisting my arm!

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.