Quotes About Belief

Había dos maneras de mirarla: imaginando que estaba lejos y era grande, o creyendo que era pequeña y estaba cerca.

The future, at least, had the advantage of not being the present, and the worse can always take a turn for the better... For, strange though it may seem, she had faith. Composed of fine organic matter, she existed. Pure and simple.

And giving myself over with the confidence of belonging to the unknown. For I can pray only to what I do not know. And I can love only the unknown evidence of things and can add myself only to what I do not know. Only that is a real giving of oneself.

And - and don't forget that the structure of the atom cannot be seen but it nonetheless known. I know about lots of things I've never seen. And so do you. You can't show proof of the truest thing of all, all you can do is believe. Weep and believe.

Quando rezava conseguia um oco de alma - e esse oco é o tudo que posso eu jamais ter. Mais do que isso, nada. Mas o vazio tem valor e a semelhança do pleno. Um meio de obter é não procurar, um meio de ter é o de não pedir e somente acreditar que o silêncio que eu creio em mim é resposta e meu - a meu mistério.

My expectations closed the world to me.

For her reality was too much to be believed.

Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" (A Hora da Estrela)

I am alone in the world and I don't believe in anyone, everyone lies, sometimes even when making love, I don't think one being speaks to another, the truth only comes to me when I'm alone.

God belongs to those who manage to get him. God appears when you're distracted.

E - não esquecer que a estrutura do átomo não é vista mas sabe-se dela. Sei de muita coisa que não vi. E vós também. Não se pode dar uma prova da existência do que é mais verdadeiro, o jeito é acreditar. Acreditar chorando.

What sustains me is to know that I shall always fabricate a god in the image I require in order to sleep peacefully, and that others will quietly pretend that we are all justified, and that there is nothing to be done. All this because we are astute by nature and the bastions of something. And above all, because we try not to understand.

Quanto mais precisarmos, mais Deus existe. Quanto mais pudermos, mais Deus teremos.

The more we need, the more God exists.

He who emphasizes the ritual of faith can lose the point of faith.

Since the state of grace exists permanently: we are always saved. All the world is in a state of grace.

la esperanza no existe, porque ella no es ya un futuro aplazado, es hoy.

Depois que descobri em mim mesma como é que se pensa, fazendo comigo mesma negociatas, nunca mais pude acreditar no pensamento dos outros.

It would seem, O Nushain, that you have doubted your own horoscope,' said the guide, with a certain irony. 'However, even a bad astrologer, on occasion, may read the heavens aright. Obey, then, the stars that decreed your journey.

Put simply, all religion is anthropocentric.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ.

The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

Those who have an excessive faith in their ideas are not well fitted to make discoveries.