Quotes About Belief

The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

The prisoner who had lost faith in the future—his future—was doomed. With his loss of belief in the future, he also lost his spiritual hold; he let himself decline and became subject to mental

If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become what they are capable of becoming.

tengo mis dudas acerca de que sea posible hablar de Dios, y a veces sospecho que quizás lo único factible sea hablar con Dios

Cuando la fe se atrofia, parece como que se deforma o desfigura. ¿Acaso no hemos visto también en el terreno cultural, es decir, no sólo a escala individual sino social, cómo la fe reprimida degenera en superstición?

sólo existen dos modos de tratar la Biblia: o se la toma al pie de la letra, o se la toma en serio.

El ateo preferiría que se fuera honesto por uno mismo, por el bien de otro o por la bondad intrínseca de la cosa, y no para ir al cielo.

The Saudis think that God is on their side, and people who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts.

He loved Kennedy and he trusted her, but at the end of the day she was still a spy. A professional perpetrator of deceit and lies. As much as he wanted to believe her, he could never really be sure. He turned his attention back to Baker.

The human species' ability to believe whatever it wanted was truly incredible.

It was one thing to trust in God, but another to rely on his intervention. Allah might see this as arrogance and punish those involved.

Voters didn't care about public policy or economics or even their own well-being. What they wanted was to connect with their leadership on a gut level. To feel a part of something. To believe that they had power.

I used to believe in God. And even the royalty. Now I see the first as delusional and the second as naïve. All that pomp and circumstance is just a weapon the strong use against the weak. And a strangely effective one.

Only those things the heart believes are true.

They are able who think they are able.

When gods are contrary they stand by no one.

For they conquer who believe they can.

The gods thought otherwise. Dis aliter visum.

Believe one who hath proved it, how mightily he rises over his shield, in what a whirlwind he hurls his spear.

possunt, quia posse videntur.

Nate dea, si nemo audet se credere pugnae, quae finis standi?  Quo me decet usque teneri? Ducere dona iube.'  Cuncti simul ore fremebant Dardanidae, reddique viro promissa iubebant.

En haec promissa fides est?

We make our destiny by our choice of the gods.

Quienes pueden, pueden porque piensan que pueden.