Quotes About Belief

A veces, durante cierto tiempo, pierdo por completo la fe en la naturaleza humana; me asalta la duda. Pero Dios Nuestro Señor siempre acaba por devolverme la fe y mostrarme su bondadoso amor a las criaturas.

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind--and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

Hasta me acuerdo de cómo, cuando yo era joven, creía que la muerte era un fenómeno del cuerpo; sin embargo, ahora sé que no es más que una función de la mente: una función de las mentes de quienes sufren la pérdida. Los nihilistas dicen que la muerte es el final; los funcionalistas, que el comienzo; pero en realidad no es más que un simple inquilino o familia que deja su habitación o su ciudad.

So you believe in the rightness of man? I said. I will beat the heads off yez all for a shilling, Comyn said. I believe in the pitiableness of man, the subadar said. That is better.

é difícil acreditar que um amor ou uma dor é uma debênture comprada sem intenção e que vence querendo ou não e é recolhida sem aviso prévio para ser substituída pelo título que os deuses resolverem emitir no momento não você só vai fazer isso quando acreditar que nem mesmo ela era merecedora do desespero talvez

Bir gün Cora'yla konuÅŸuyordum. Dua etti benim için, günah? göremediÄŸimi san?yordu, benim de diz çöküp dua etmemi istedi, çünkü günah? kelimeler olarak görenlerin gözünde kurtuluÅŸ da kelimelerdir yaln?zca.

Evidently it took Catholic school to turn young kids into fearless, hardened apostates.

We will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam.

We've had the goddam Ages of Faith, we've had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity

where would Christianity be today if Jesus had been given ten to twenty with time off for good behavior

The most difficult challenge to the ideal is its transformation into reality, and few ideals survive.

If we believe that love is weakness? And people resent it, because they think it's an admission of weakness, they draw away from it… and that's why you kill the thing you love, because it's your weakness personified. If you kill it, you will kill your weakness before it kills you.

It's just, sometimes it's just too God damned long to be able to keep believing something's real...

Nihil cavum neque sine signo apud Deum.

You get a picture of things in your head and your picture is all you see. You don't know me. You don't even know yourself. All you know is your little picture of how things ought to be, and that's the way you think they are.

Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer. But he was also fond of saying, at other times, that even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.

Conspiracy theory's got to be simple. Sense doesn't come into it. People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy.

Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer.

So now, in her day, he said, they were headed into androgenic, systemic, multiplex, seriously bad shit, like she sort of already knew, figured everybody did, except for people who still said it wasn't happening, and those people were mostly expecting the Second Coming, anyway.

Know what's worse than imaginary, Leon? What? Half-imaginary.

If you believe the journalists, he's the single wealthiest individual, period. As rich as some zaibatsu. But there's the catch, really: is he an individual? In the sense that you are, or I am? No.

Getting Heidi the last-minute appointment had required epic stylist-suckery, but Hollis was a firm believer in the therapeutic power of the right haircut.

Vodou isn't like that," Beauvoir said. "It isn't concerned with notions of salvation and transcendence. What it's about is getting things done.

So now, in her day, he said, they were headed into androgenic, systemic, multiplex, seriously bad shit, like she sort of already knew, figured everybody did, except for people who still said it wasn't happening, and those people were mostly expecting the Second Coming anyway.