Quotes About Belief

The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.

I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.

Faith was a choice. So, it followed, was wonder.

In his youth, [he] had believed everything was possible. Then in grief, he believed everything was impossible. And now. . . he felt that when you had lived enough of your life, there was no difference between the two.

You know what the hardest thing is?" Phoebe said, as the first pair of fireworks went up. "The hardest thing is to know everything you know so far and still have faith.

Every time I saw Muslim masses bowed in prayer or the Catholic faithful gathered all I saw was fear. Moronically nodding Hasidim, paint-throwing Hindus, shimmying and jabbering Evangelicals, they were all scared shitless this was all there was. Even the Buddhists (whose crinkled tee-heeing lamas always made me want to slap them) were terrified of their own flesh and blood, needed some disembodied desire-free fairyland to shoot for.

You don't believe in the soul until you feel it straining to escape the body.

There are things you think you won't be able to do, that need the actual to become possible. There are things that only become thinkable once you're already doing them.

This had occurred to me. But for no reason I can dignify with anything higher than the authority of a two-hundred-year-old gut I didn't buy it. "It's possible," I said. "Of course it's possible." "But you don't think so" "No. I'm not sure why." Another silence, her intelligence working. Then a very slight smile. "It's because it would be less romantic," she said.

Human love didn't eradicate God, but it put Him into His proper distant second place.

There is no God. And that's His only Commandment.

What would it be like without Him?

God being dead, irony still rollickingly alive...

Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.

Then it's decided. In the end, we are just as mortal as man. But while God will save a few, we will corrupt and destroy the rest of them. That is the best way to hurt Him. While many worship what you represent, most will come to believe that the existence of God is a myth." The woman spoke up. "But if they think He is a myth, won't they think that you don't exist either?" The Chairman smiled broadly this time. "Exactly.

TV," I said, "do you believe in God?" "I believe," he said, "in Walt Disney." "You too!" We had clicked.

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.

The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.

I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.

And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.

Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.

The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.

Application of your faith will change your life

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.