Quotes About Belief

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.

ReligionHas made an honest woman of the supernatural.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

The bodhi tree has been converted into a marriage tree. The belief is that young women who die before marriage should have a husband in the next world. Their relatives bring a wedding dress and monks to this tree and perform a wedding ceremony. The spirit of the dead woman is married to a famous singer, poet or magician who died many years ago. Their families believe that he'll be a good husband will look after each wife as if she were the only one.

The spirits of the young women are at rest," said Marley, "if you believe the legend." "I am believing that spirits never rest. That is their misfortune. They have no choice but to roam endlessly and never to arrive. It is our belief.

A judge without impartiality is like a priest without faith. Good faith in the judicial system is underscored by a belief in impartiality.

Is your faith such a fragile thing that it can be so easily shattered?

There were things violence could solve—you couldn't be a soldier and not believe that—but this wasn't one of them.

She was yet another proof to me that nothing limits a person more than what was then called "a clearly-defined world view.

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

Sometimes I don't think any of us really believes anything we say; we are just defending our kind.

God Only Knows the Issue.

Er hoffte also in paradoxaler Weise, nämlich auf die Vergangenheit gerichtet statt auf die Zukunft. Und das tun wir, nebenbei bemerkt, meistens.

Now the Irish have a strange custom: whenever the name of County Mayo is spoken (whether in praise, blame, or non-committally, as soon as the world Mayo is spoken, the Irish add: 'God help us!" It sounds like the response in a litany: 'Lord, have mercy upon us!

Atheisten langweilen mich, weil sie immer nur von Gott sprechen.

I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences." "And atheists?" He was still laughing. "They bore me because all they ever talk about is God." "Then what are you?" "I am a clown," I said...

Ich kniete nieder, bekreuzte mich, und ich hatte einen Augenblick das Gefühl, ein Heuchler zu sein, bis mir einfiel, daß Gott unschuldig war und daß es keine Heuchelei war, vor ihm niederzuknien. S.47

Crees que me sentó bien cuando Leo me dijo que se hacía católico? Fue tan doloroso para mí como la muerte de Henriette; no me habría dolido tanto si me hubiese dicho que se hacía comunista. Eso puedo concebirlo, que un joven albergue un falso sueño de justicia social y todo eso. Pero aquello.»

I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences." "And atheists?" He was still laughing. "They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.

High spirits and a good time need trust, that's what they're built upon.

Decades of destruction, suppression, genocide, sterilization, and political indoctrination could not break the Tibetans' will for freedom, or their deep-rooted religious beliefs. On

In the country where I'm traveling - Tibet - people believe if they walk long distances to holy places, it purifies the bad deeds they've committed. They believe the more difficult the journey, the greater the depth of purification.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.