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Quotes About Belief

Heart pumps blood — and love, passion, hurt, joy, faith.
~ Terri Guillemets
Where Thou art – that – is Home... Where Thou art not – is Wo...
~ Emily Dickinson
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy — and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live — only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs — is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species bent on a quest for salvation, security, or sanity
~ Thomas Szasz
...and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work... Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect: like a man, who has thought of a good repartee, when the discourse has changed; or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.
~ Jonathan Swift, 1710
Hope is the gardener of the heart.
~ J. De Finod
All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden.
~ Terri Guillemets
Hope is a choice of courage.
~ Terri Guillemets
Hope is wingèd — one wing faith-patience the other action-effort: and we must fly with both!
~ Terri Guillemets
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God.
~ Charles L. Allen
Let hope be your pulse Faith in every heartbeat Joy with every breath...
~ Terri Guillemets
Hope is the silver lining of dreams.
~ Terri Guillemets
Those who reject biological evolution do so, usually, not out of reason, but out of unjustified vanity.
~ Isaac Asimov
We fight best, and die best, and live best, for what we love.
~ Jack London
You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong—to his own satisfaction.
~ Jack London
Io non credo alle fiamme e allo zolfo dell'inferno; ma in momenti come questo rimpiango la mia miscredenza. No, in momenti come questo io quasi ci credo. Deve esistere per forza un inferno, perché in nessun altro posto voi potrete ricevere una punizione adeguata ai vostri crimini. Fino a quando esisterà gente come voi, l'inferno sarà un'esigenza essenziale del cosmo.
~ Jack London
There is no God but Fact, and Mr. Everhard is its prophet
~ Jack London
Oh, I am not challenging your sincerity, Ernest continued. You are sincere. You preach what you believe. There lies your strength and your value—to the capitalist class.
~ Jack London
As imagination grew it is likely that the fear of death increased until the Folk that were to come projected this fear into the dark and peopled it with spirits.
~ Jack London
I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed. (from Who's Who in Hell)
~ Jack London
I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both my own feet and the feet of my readers on the ground so that no matter how high we dream our dreams will be based on reality
~ Jack London
C'è un proverbio che afferma che la verità viene sempre a galla. Sono arrivata a dubitare di tale proverbio. Sono trascorsi diciannove anni e nonostante tutti i nostri incessanti sforzi, non siamo riusciti a trovare l'uomo che realmente lanciò la bomba.
~ Jack London
Adaleti de adaletsizli?i de kendi tanr?lar?n?n elinden almas? gerekiyordu.
~ Jack London
Kullar?n?n hayatlar?na ve ölümlerine karar verme gücü tanr?lar?n elindeydi ve tanr?lar, güçlerini k?skançl?kla korurlard?.
~ Jack London
Mrs. Silverstein is a dub, and a softy, and a knocker," he said good-humoredly.  "What's she know about such things, anyway?  I tell you it is good, and healthy, too,"—this last as an afterthought. 
~ Jack London