Quotes About Belief

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

habit of trusting breaks you badly

1. Passion; 2. An eye of discernment; 3. An empty vessel; 4. An ability to be uncertain; 5. Belief in the necessity of art and artists; 6. A medium—bringing a passionate and informed understanding of works of art to an audience in ways that will stimulate, inspire, question; 7. Making possible the altering of perception.6

Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.

If you're being honest, you don't have to tell THE truth. Only God knows THE truth.

I stopped believing in forever years and years ago-but every breakup hurt me anyway. Every woman who left took part of me with her. Maybe I wasn't too full with the past-maybe I was just too empty. I just didn't know if I had anything left.

Ha muerto el Hijo de Dios: es absolutamente creíble, porque es absurdo; y también ha resucitado de la tumba: es cierto, porque es imposible.

O witness of the soul naturally Christian.

We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

It is to be believed because it is absurd.

Mother Church.

It is certain because it is impossible

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

You say we worship the sun; so do you.

Certum est, quia impossible est.

Credere quia absurdum est

I believe because it is absurd.

But how will a Christian engage in war—indeed, how will a Christian even engage in military service during peacetime—without the sword, which the Lord has taken away? For although soldiers had approached John to receive instructions and a centurion believed, this does not change the fact that afterward, the Lord, by disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier. Under no circumstances should a true Christian draw the sword.

we must be thankful that we are all together. And we must believe that there is a reason we are still alive

I wish I knew how one is supposed to live. I wish somebody had taught me. Why do people we take for authorities when we are children let us down in this respect? Who is to tell us which is right? The cross, the crescent, the hammer and sickle, the smiling Buddha? do as you would be done by.

To have made up your mind from the beginning that everything people do is spoiled and bad and ugly. Really, I can't separate it from someone who believes in original sin. It's the new doctrine of original sin, environmentalism: the sins of the technological revolutions shall be visited upon the children until the nth generation. You believe the worst, so you never have to be disappointed. It's so cowardly, really.

I'd lived all along as if I was acting out some turbulent drama; then I woke up one day and found I'd stopped believing in the play