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Quotes About Belief

At least God never showed his face in Iceland. Olie tells me it wasn't even created by him. No wonder it's the most peaceful country in the world.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
In any case I attach no importance to God. It's nothing more than arrogance for us humans to consider ourselves any more significant than all the animals, flowers and plants. Cows never created a bovine Jesus for themselves. Not even a dandelion believes in God, and that's the most stupid plant of them all.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Og silungur gengur þar á milli beina, fiskur sem enginn vill sjá á borðum hér. Hér hafa sextán kynslóðir búið í svengd og sjö þúsund kynslóðir af bleikju dáið í hárri og feitri elli. Hungrið er vofa sem alin er á hjátrú sem nærist á heimsku sem sefur hjá trú. Sá sem fyrstur veiðir í þessu vatni mun eta silung með landnámsbragði.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Enten er du i himmelen, eller så er du i helvete. Det finnes ingen mellomting. Det nytter ikke å vingle. Det finnes ingen middelvei! Og du, min venn, DU ER I HELVETE?!
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Yeah, but I'm a Croatian Catholic. There's nothing religious about that. It only means you go to church two times in your life. When you marry and when you die.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Imaginary friends." "You know they're not real," Mina said. "I know, I know." Annabelle put a finger to her lips, shhh, and added in a stage whisper. "But they don't." Mina had laughed, and then stopped laughing because it was clear that Annabelle didn't get her own joke, and she wasn't about to start laughing at her sister. Not then. Not ever.
~ Hallie Ephron
The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
~ Hamid Karzai
But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
~ Hamid Karzai
It is a very old and widely spread superstition that when a dog howls at night someone not far away is dying or will soon die. Many people are uncomfortable when they hear a dog howling after dark, not because they believe that dogs have any knowledge that death is present or coming, but because their ancestors for many centuries believed that the howling of a dog was ominous
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
War, he said, quoting John Stuart Mill, was "an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things….A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free.
~ Hampton Sides
Nature is my God. I don't believe in the hereafter. This world is where we get all our punishment.
~ Hampton Sides
Everyone's a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Isn't it interesting, that a black man, who is a Muslim, and has the name 'Muhammad', is the most beloved athlete in the world?
~ Hamza Yusuf
Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, a thirteenth century scholar, said that it is possible for anyone to have sincerity in what one does and in what one believes, irrespective of creed.
~ Hamza Yusuf
The Prophet also said that the affair of believers is all good. Even if something unpleasant occurs, there is good in it.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Es gibt keinen Platz für Hoffnungslosigkeit. Der Kampf geht weiter. Diese Welt war niemals dafür gedacht, um das Paradies zu sein. Gott hat die Welt erschaffen, damit du durch sie zu Gott finden mögest. Wenn du an Gott glaubst, dann wirst du für alle Bedrängnisse, die dir in diesem Leben widerfahren, am Tage des Jüngsten Gerichts die Belohnung dafür erhalten.
~ Hamza Yusuf
If one is to have fear, it should be of God, who has revealed, "And whoever fears God, He will make for him a way out. And He will provide for him in a way he never expected. And whoever trusts in God, He is sufficient for him" (QUR'AN , 65:2
~ Hamza Yusuf
If one wants anything, one should seek it from God, the Sovereign of the heavens and the earth. The basic rule is to ask God and then work; that is, one should utilize the means (asb?b) that one must use in order to achieve something in this world.
~ Hamza Yusuf
I am looking forward to yawm al qiyamah, I really am, I think it's gonna be an amazing day, for me, you get the director's commentary.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Kalpteki hasta?klar?n birço?unun kökeni, yakîn eksikli?ine ve Allah'a güvenmemeye dayan?r.
~ Hamza Yusuf
?çten yap?lan bir dua çok güçlü bir silaht?r ve Allah, yaln?zca Kendisine yalvaranlar? asla geri çevirmez.
~ Hamza Yusuf
?nsan, "Yapaca??m i?e ba?kalar? ne der?" diye kayg?land?kça, Allah'?n hidayetiyle aras?ndaki perde kal?nla??r.
~ Hamza Yusuf
If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.
~ Hanif Kureishi