Quotes About Belief

Fate can be appeased, gods prayed to. But chance is just what it says.

And rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief

Qualunque cosa esista, disse. Qualunque cosa esista nella creazione senza che io la conosca esiste senza il mio consenso.

Do you think of yourself as an atheist. God no. Those were the good old days.

the woman stepped once more into the street and the children followed and all continued on to their appointed places which as some believe were chosen long ago even to the beginning of the world.

after a while someone asked the expriest if it were true that at one time there had been two moons in the sky and the expriest eyed the false moon above them and said that it may well have been so. But certainly the wise high God in his dismay at the proliferation of lunacy on this earth must have wetted a thumb and leaned down out of the abyss and pinched it hissing into extinction.

He had no faith in the power of men to act wisely in their own behalf. It was his view rather that every act soon eluded the grasp of its propagator to be swept away in a clamorous tide of unforeseen consequence. He believed that in the world was another agenda, another order, and with this power lay whatever faith he may have held. In the meantime he waited to be called to he knew not what.

Everyone is born with the faculty to see the miraculous. You have to choose not to.

I had trouble with the God thing. A lot of people do.

It just sounds like superstition to me. And what is that? Superstition? Yes. Well. I guess it's when you believe in things that dont exist. Such as tomorrow? Or yesterday? Such as the dreams of somebody you dreamt. Yesterday was here and tomorrow's comin.

It's not so much that I don't believe in it. I don't subscribe to its nomination. If fate is the law then is fate also subject to that law? At some point we cannot escape naming responsibility.

If there is an afterlife - and I pray most fervently that there is not - I can only hope that they wont sing.

To the skeptic all arguments are circular.

I dont believe that the world can be better than what you allow it to be. Dark a world as you live in, they aint goin to be a whole lot of surprises in the way of good news.

Carmen Cardoso acreditava no conto de fadas mais perigoso de todos: o do príncipe que a salvaria.

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness … you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity … believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

I prefer to be hope rather than talk about hope.

Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.

Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.

Believe, believe, believe

I'm sorry, Silvertongue, but the fact is I don't believe anyone. You ought to know that by now. We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

The best lies stay close to the truth.

Why such haste? For a foolish hope? Why did his heart always insist on believing that there was a light in all the darkness?

It was far easier to believe in unhappiness than in happiness.