Quotes About Belief

You ask for a savior, and you become their slave.

You must be who you are - that which you tell yourself and what you've convinced others to believe.

Your assumptions are just as wild as your confusion.

The truth is that trust is a gift, it's something we all can lose So hold on, it's not where it goes, it's where it can lead you to.

Live innocently; God is here.

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

Glauben Sie ernstlich'[...]'daß wir dieses Volk nicht wieder werden zu Menschen machen können?

Optimists were optimistic, pessimists pessimistic, and the in-betweens listened to the optimists one day and to the pessimists the next.

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

Beware of what "everybody says".

There's no more doomed a struggle than a battle with the imaginary.

You can call it innocence or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: She assumed that everyone else was just like her. Evidence to the contrary found nowhere to lodge, like a book on chaos theory in a library that didn't have a physics section.

Economics is closer to religion than science.

For that matter, all this, is there a God? Corlis -- I don't care!" "Huh," I considered. "I guess I don't either". "Most people don't! All they care about," he added grimly, "is being right".

A ver si te entiendo. Dices que no crees su relato porque es demasiado creíble. —En efecto —asentí tranquilamente—, Kevin puede ser un chico intrigante y malicioso, pero su profesora de lengua está en lo cierto: es agudo como un estilete. —¿Te pareció que se moría de ganas de salir a declarar? —¡Claro que no! Es un genio.

Mucho de lo que sacaba de Internet era sospechoso, pues la red era como la Biblia: se podía encontrar documentación para apoyar con firmeza cualquier postura si uno navegaba el tiempo suficiente.

He appeared to believe that because the university owed him his salary, it would ipso facto pay his salary, in a confusion of should and will that bordered on dyslexic.

Because all value is subjective, money is worth what people feel it's worth. They accept it in exchange for goods and services because they have faith in it.