Quotes About Belief

Zorba sighed. He lit a cigarette, took one or two puffs and then threw it away. My country, you say?… You believe all the rubbish your books tell you…? Well, I'm the one you should believe. So long as there are countries, man will stay like an animal, a ferocious animal… But I am delivered from all that, God be praised! It's finished for me! What about you?

War against the unbelievers! The unbelievers are the satisfied, the satiated, the sterile.

Conquer the last, the greatest temptation of all: Hope. This is the third duty.

Solange es Kinder gibt die hungern, gibt es keinen Gott!

And - God forgive me - I believe I am happy.

There is only one essence, always the same. As yet, man has found no other means to elevate himself - none but routing of matter and the submissions of the individual to an end which transcends the individual, even though that end be chimerical. When the heart believes and loves, nothing chimerical exists; nothing exists but courage, trust and fruitful action.

All love is one; it is exactly the same whether it be for wife, son, mother, fatherland, or for an idea, or God.

This does not mean that we need treat all as equally true: it is up to individuals and groups to make up their minds. Freedom of faith allows for rich diversity of judgements as to the truth.

I don't pray because it makes sense to pray. I pray because my life doesn't make sense without prayer.

Prayer is a path where there is none.

Too often, those who do not dream seek to destroy the dreamer by waking him.

Pese a todo lo que puede hacer un médico, maestro ¿por qué es una hoja al viento y el auténtico poder sólo está en manos de Alá?

Do not be reluctant to value yourself highly, for others do so. Nor should you hesitate to aspire to any goal, because God has been lavish in his gifts to you.

He realized the lesson was that science can take medicine only so far. Then it is helped tremendously if there is faith or belief in something else.

God is in each of us. But we must give Him permission to come out.

Y después de rezar toda la vida ante un santuario como aquél, ya no podía empezar a creer de pronto en un Dios salvador simplemente porque se veía necesitado de salvación.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it's unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.

if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in power, and telling people what they should believe...they're really more a kind of secular priesthood, whose task it is to uphold the doctrinal truths of the society. And the population SHOULD be anti-intellectual in that repect.

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

The trick is not to be isolated?if you're isolated, like Winston Smith in 1984, then sooner or later you're going to break, as he finally broke. That was the point of Orwell's story. In fact, the whole tradition of popular control has been exactly that: to keep people isolated, because if you can keep them isolated enough, you can get them to believe anything. But when people get together, all sorts of things are possible.

The public must be reduced to passivity in the political realm, but for submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be entrenched in the realm of belief as well.

We're supposed to believe that the press is liberal, dangerous, adversarial, out-of-control. That itself is an extremely good example of corporate propaganda.