Quotes About Belief

You need to forgive yourself. You need to believe what you did is not more powerful than what God can do from this point forward.

Is it possible faith in God over our future must outweigh our feelings in the things of today? And maybe there are lots of types of forgiveness just like there are lots of kinds of love.

L'utopia storica ha bisogno di volti che la incarnino.

Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that. —Britney Spears, on the invasion of Iraq

Elk 'ideaal', in het begin gevoed door het bloed van zijn adepten, verbruikt zichzelf en verdwijnt naarmate het door de massa wordt overgenomen.

Uw geloof is niets meer dan grootheidswaan, getolereerd door de gemeenschap.

Alle standpunten toelaten, de meest verschillende overtuigingen, de meest tegenstrijdige meningen, veronderstelt een algemene toestand van vermoeidheid en onvruchtbaarheid. Daardoor komt dit wonder tot stand: de tegenstanders leven samen - maar juist omdat zij geen tegenstanders meer kunnen zijn; [...] Een religie dooft uit wanneer zij waarheden tolereert die haar uitsluiten; en de god in wiens naam men niet meer moord is beslist dood.

En sí misma, toda idea es neutra o debería serlo; pero el hombre la anima, proyecta en ella sus llamas y sus demencias; impura, transformada en creencia, se inserta en el tiempo, adopta figura de suceso: el paso de la lógica a la epilepsia se ha consumado... Así nacen las ideologías, las doctrinas y las farsas sangrientas.

9 Y yo os digo: Pedid, y se os Darà; buscad y hallaréis; llamad, y se os Abrirà. 10 Porque todo aquel que pide recibe, y el que busca halla, y al que llama se le Abrirà.

Quién dicen los hombres que soy yo?

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

I believe that people who are devoutly religious, within any specific religion, have no true respect for the ultimate vastness that is God.

He believed me, and I was overwhelmed by bitterness when I saw that he did. My tears stopped; I told myself that it was quite easy to deceive those whose interest lay elsewhere.

Naught is simple about the truth. There is the truth of what happened and the truth of what I believe happened and the truth of what I still remember to have happened. And that does not embrace the truths perceived and remembered by others, let alone whether any of us witnessed the fullness of the truth in the first place.

but I believe she loved me too, in her own, warped way.

It's hard to know what has become folklore and what is reality. But don't all myths stem from some semblance of fact?

Maybe faith was having the humility to scream at God and the audacity to get up off the floor.

It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is.

She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed, but she sometimes is.

Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.

I was crazy. I was crazy in the way a child is crazy, in the way of someone who believes, with rash fervor, that life can be—that it will yet be, and most certainly—as you would wish it. How could I have been so foolish?

cannot recognize attitudes and beliefs

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.