Quotes About Belief

Dad said I'd go to hell.

I reckon, Billy, that there's such a thing as serendipity, that if you are meant to move on, you will. And I believe that if you imagine, and keep on imagining, a better life for your family, then events will conspire to present the opportunity to you. And when that time comes, you will make your decision, one way or another." "Bit of a gamble, though, ain't it?" "So is staying in one spot." Epilogue

Children should always be believed until proven otherwise.

she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism, without a strong sense of the possible, would represent a very sad state of affairs.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now .

She had told him that she loved him. He had known that, but hearing it in the traditional phrase had affected him in new and blinding ways. Ways that made him believe that he could do anything. Anything she needed or wanted him to do. Because her loving him meant so much more than him loving her.

When all around take fundamental ideas for granted, these must be the truth. For most minds there is no comfort like it.

if one consults reason alone, one cannot assent to the articles of our faith it was full of mysteries; we are fools to try to explain them. This makes preaching Christianity not only a hard task but also dangerous. Had I know, I should never have been a preacher.

As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse, and as soon as we admit that every finite discourse is bound by a certain bricolage and that the engineer and the scientist are also species of bricoleurs, then the very idea of bricolage is menaced and the difference in which it took on its meaning breaks down.

Our faith is not assured, because faith can never be, it must never be a certainty.

the constancy of God in my life is called by other names, so that I quite rightly pass for an atheist

La métaphysique n'est qu'une sorte d'appendicite idéologique.

No one, he believed, should abuse the faith by slandering others for their beliefs.

James A. Connor

Simple. Judaism had its day, and if the Jews had been smart, when Christianity came along they'd have joined up. Christianity has had its day, and if you were intelligent you'd both join the newest religion. Islam!" He bowed low and said, "Soon all Africa will be Islamic. And all Black America. I see India giving up Hinduism while Burma and Thailand surrender Buddhism. Gentlemen, I represent the religion of the future. I offer you salvation.

I doubt, dearest child, that you could ever marry a Frenchman. They're not dependable. I've never believed that they're serious Catholics." He

The mystic perceives with his heart what the mind knows to be true... but cannot prove

She has disaffiliated herself from the beliefs that gave our society its structure in the past, but she has found no new structure upon which she can rely for that support which every human life requires.

they believed that the bright, soaring promises of the New Testament could be used as a basis for government; and

We told Ellen, "He's a

Rabbi Akiba said: Israel must not be like the pagans, thanking their wooden gods when good happens and cursing them when evil comes. When good comes, the Jews thank God, and when evil comes, they thank Him too.

said, "The paths to God are manifold.

Religions are always in trouble," Tabari said. "In adversity they grow honest. It's good for them.

The curious thing about this little forerunner of greatness is that although we are sure that he existed and are intellectually convinced that he had to have certain characteristics, no man has ever seen a shred of physical evidence that he really did exist.