Quotes About Belief

Of course he [God] will forgive me; that's his business.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers."

In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

Wenn das Leben bös von sich spricht, glaubt er der Unglaublichten nicht. Dagegen verführt die Weisheit dann am meisten, wenn sie von sich schlecht spricht. Die Weisheit gewinnt Zarathustra gerade durch ihre Fähigkeit zur Selbskritik. Dagegen findet das Leben keinen Glauben bei ihm, wenn es böse von sich redet, weil sein tiefster Glaube sagt, daß das Leben gut sei.

Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of the Reich fawned over him and worshipped him with total devotion.

Physicists, irrespective of their belief, may invoke God when they feel issues of principle are at stake because the God of the physicists is cosmic order.

She had been an exceptional leader in an exceptional moment – a miraculous anomaly who, by the will of heaven, had transformed the landscape in which she stood. She knew that God was with her, and how much work still lay ahead. But what if those around her believed the moment of miracles had passed?

God is at work in my life and everything is unfolding as it should.

Every family had its own peculiar cult, to which no stranger was ever admitted, and which alone could appease and satisfy the gods of that family. The cult was handed down from father to son, from generation to generation, and could not be lost without condemning the whole series of ancestors to eternal misery.

Everyone knows they're only stories. Mermaids aren't real: they're a legend. As long as humans believe that, Ingo is safe.

Dad was alive. I believed Conor, but I still didn't really know it. But now I do.

I think there's more to God than the big beardy feller in the sky. I know that God is on earth, in people, in good deeds. God is in the big things, and the small things. He's under the fingernails of our daughters, and he's in all the kindnesses we show people. I know that what people call 'God's work' can be called 'lightening the burden' for another human being. My kind of God might be a bit different from yours, maybe that's all.

History is a card table full of illusions, and we must sort through and pick the ones we wish to believe.

And the contrast between our families hit me like a King James Version falling from the sky.

If you pretend to feel a certain way, eventually you do feel that way.

If you pretend to feel a certain way, eventually you do feel that way. That has been a surprisingly pleasant lesson to learn in life.

This is why James likes birds- because they are all possibility. They make a line in the aid, the invisible line of their flight, and this line can join up with other lines or lead somewhere entirely new. All you have to do is believe that the line exists and learn how to follow it. And sometimes life will make this same invisible line for him, make him see where he came from, what he is attached to.

Just because I'm painfully honest does not mean I'm right.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.