Quotes About Belief

But George knows he can't do that. Because, absurdly, inadequately, in spite of himself, almost, he is a representative of the hope. And the hope is not false. No. It's just that George is like a man trying to sell a real diamond for a nickel, on the street. The diamond is protected from all but the tiniest few, because the great hurrying majority can never stop to dare to believe that it could conceivably be real.

The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree.

He dislikes even to touch these things, for they are the runes of an idiotic but nevertheless potent and evil magic: the magic of the think-machine gods, whose cult has one dogma, We cannot make a mistake. Their magic consists in this: that whenever they do make a mistake, which is quite often, it is perpetuated and thereby becomes a non-mistake.…

Bask? uygulayan çoÄŸunluk kötü olduÄŸuna göre, der liberal kiÅŸi, demek ki bask? gören grup sütten ç?kma ak ka??k olmal?d?r. Bu nas?l bir saçmal?kt?r, fark?nda m?s?n?z? Kötünün kendisinden daha kötü olanlar taraf?ndan bask? alt?na al?nmas? olmayacak ÅŸey mi? Arenadaki bütün H?ristiyan kurbanlar aziz mi olmal?lar?

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.

I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.

Faustus: «Come, I think hell's a fable». Mephistopheles: «Ay, think so still, until experience change thy mind».

I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the the universe

For whilst I live, here lives my soul's sole hope, And when I die, here shall my spirit walk.

I can't believe Joe Koch is complaining about the Goodreads Quote system

This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do.

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

That's the scary thing about hope, she said. If you let it go too long it turns into faith.

Adeline had come to Christianity the same way she had come to sex and smoking:through peer pressure.Thinking about her six kids and her smoker's hack, she wondered if perhaps peer pressure didn't always lead to the best habits.

After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.

Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.

They were told what they wanted and they believed it. They can only keep their dream alive by being with others like themselves who will mirror their illusions.

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a tangled ball of chaos.

Why understand when you can believe?

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination. Every time you give them a new metaphor, a mustard seed, a field, a garden, a vineyard, it's like pointing something out to a cat - the cat looks at your finger, not at what you're pointing at. They don't need to understand it, they only need to believe, and they do. They imagine the kingdom as they need it to be, they don't need to grasp it, it's there already, they can let it be. Imagination, not intellect.

Religion was supposed to be a matter of faith. Gods were not supposed to jump on your desk and snarl at you. They weren't supposed to sit in your office smoking cigarettes. God's didn't do anything. They were supposed to ignore you and let you suffer and die having never known whether your religion was a waste of time. Faith.