Quotes About Belief

We will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, armies, flags, & nations; in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. It seems to me one should rejoice in the fact of death, one out to decide indeed to earn ones death by confronting with passion, the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life. It is that small beacon from that terrifying darkness from wence we come and wence we shall return.

He grinned. I could not tell whether he grinned because he thought I was lying or because he knew I was telling the truth.

knew that, according to many Christians, I was a descendant of Ham, who had been cursed, and that I was therefore predestined to be a slave. This had nothing to do with anything I was, or contained, or could become; my fate had been sealed forever, from the beginning of time. And

One cannot argue with anyone's experience or decision or belief. All my evidence would be thrown out of court as irrelevant to the main body of the case, for I could cite only exceptions. The South Side proved the justice of the indictment; the state of the world proved the justice of the indictment. Everything else, stretching back throughout recorded time, was merely a history of those exceptions who had tried to change the world and had failed.

Americans suffer from an ignorance that is not only colossal, but sacred.

The intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

Perhaps I did not succumb to ideology, as you put it, because I have never seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness. In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the truth. Now, later on, you wonder what in the world the truth is, but you do know what a lie is.

I supposed he wouldn't start doubting her until he started doubting everything.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but, in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

Credendo vides: by believing, one sees. Post nublia phoebus: after clouds, sun!

Psychological research has shown that the most productive and happy people have a basically optimistic view of the future. We believe the same is true of companies

But isn't setting such an audacious mission risky? Yes. A good mission should be difficult to achieve. There should be a chance you'll fail, combined with an off-setting belief that you'll make it anyway. That's part of what makes it a real mission.

You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of

If you're afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you're not really fit to advocate for them.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. —Joyce Carol Oates

A naive belief in supernatural powers has been dispelled

Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way.

I'll thank you to remember that not so many years ago men were burned at the stake just for saying the earth went round the sun!

And yet you have faith in the King," Father Donovan said quietly.

Then, alone once more, he split himself into the three persons that all generals of the Church must simultaneously be. First, the anointed Peter, first Bishop of Christ, with all that that spiritually implied. Second, the militant guardian of the Church temporal with all that that implied. And last, just a simple man who believed the teachings of a simple man who was the Son of God.

Who knows what tomorrow will bring Tomorrow is in the hands of God Tomorrow will be a lovely day.