Quotes About Belief

Was it with a clear mind that she believed in us, or was it just the booze talking?

Why, after all these years, do I still believe that expensive clothing signifies anything more than a disposable income, that tweed and cashmere actually bespeak refinement?

Nu avea nimic de-a face cu a schimba oamenii - uitati de asta, intr-o zi esti norocos si doar daca convingi pe cineva sa-si schimbe sosetele.

Schopenhauer's saying: All great truth goes through three phases. First it is ridiculed, then violently attacked, and finally accepted as self-evident.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn't.

The ancient Indian epic Mah?bh?rata asks, "Of all the world's wonders, which is the most wonderful? That no man, though he sees others dying all around him, believes that he himself will die.

Dev wondered if that was the job of fiction, to test-drive the impossible, to loosen our grip on conventional reality. He guessed that's probably what fiction writers would claim—if there were any left, that is.

maybe people gave God too many alls to juggle.

Unbelief is a burden, but the pretence of belief, hypocrisy, is death to all that is decent in you.

The you must be there for the I to find itself. Trust in you gives me trust in myself. In the encounter between the you and the I, faith is born. I am so truly I because I have faith in you. Only the I that comes about through faith can have faith.

A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.

No está permitido dudar. No está permitido decir la verdad. No está permitido rectificar

Jesucristo hoy no dudaría dos tertulias ni resistiría el escrutinio de sus andanzas por Galilea.

Es fácil engañar a las madres cuando ellas quieren ser engañadas.

Americans, Douglass believed, instinctively and culturally watched history and preferred not to act in it.

Douglass much preferred to employ passages such as John 5:17, when Jesus is condemned to death because he broke the law and labored on the Sabbath: "My father worketh, said the Savior, and I also work."26

Calvin was not of stone, and if there are Reformed people who are, they are poor Calvinists.

It had to be the greatest irony in the history of mankind, he thought. The last Christian in the entire universe was a machine.

And you were of the opinion propaganda has to make sense to be effective?

It's not what you don't know that hurts you; it's what you think you know that isn't so.

The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it

the very first thing that happens with any zealot is that he removes his brain just in case any thoughts that might challenge his zealotry should happen to stray into it.

I wonder if treecats pray?

perhaps the cardinal element, was the belief that the book was never closed, never ended. God was infinite; Man's understanding was not. And so, there would always be more for Man to learn, more for God to teach him, and as the doctrine of the Test taught, it was best to pay attention to one's lessons, whatever the form in which they might come.