Quotes About Belief

To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars. We have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and reject the absurd, to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify belief, to remove superstitions from above religion; to clear God of caterpillars.

He who despairs is wrong. Progress infallibly awakens, and, in short, we might say that it advances even in sleep, for it has grown.

Above all, you can believe in Providence in either of two ways, either as thirst believes in the orange, or as the ass believes in the whip.

the old man raised his finger toward heaven, and said, 'The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no ME, the ME would be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would not be. But it is. Then it has a ME. This ME of the infinite is God.

Un sceptique qui adhère à un croyant cela est simple comme la loi des couleurs complémentaires.Ce qui nous manque nous attire.

THE SUPREME HAPPINESS IN LIFE IS THE CONVICTION THAT WE ARE LOVED V. HUGO

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved

Ä°nsan içinde bulunduÄŸu umutsuz koÅŸullarda bazen bir zinciri bir saç teliyle koparabileceÄŸini san?r. (s. 55)

Le suprême bonheur dans la vie,c'est la conviction qu'on est aimé..

Vrhunac sre?e u životu, to je uvjerenje da vas netko voli; voli radi vas samih, bolje re?eno, voli protiv vas samih; slijepac ima to uvjerenje.

and after all in this house what have we to fear? There is always someone with us who is stronger. The devil may visit us, but God lives here.

Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

Kebahagiaan terbesar di dunia ialah merasa yakin kita dicintai.

One does not cross-examine a saint.

In our nineteenth century the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. Certain things have been unlearnt, and this is good, provided other things are learnt. There must be no void in the human heart.

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake-let us say rather in spite of one's self.

There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness.

diocese. True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

A priest and a philosopher are two different things

Vrai ou faux, ce qu'on dit des hommes tient souvent autant de place dans leur vie et surtout dans leur destinée que ce qu'ils font.

Vrai ou faux, ce qu'on dit des hommes tient souvent autant de place dans leur vie et surtout dans leur destinée que ce qu'ils font.

when I see humanity ripped apart and events patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, when I see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. M.

But you are good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor. CHAPTER