Quotes About Belief

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt—something is gained but something is lost.

or at least I felt that within the lie there was a deeper truth.

He promised them a class that would challenge their own beliefs about the redemptive humanity of what is commonly called 'Art'. 'Art is the Western myth,' announced Howard, for the sixth year in a row, 'with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

The shit is *not* the shit (this was Mo's mantra,) the *pigeon* is the shit.

Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

Magical thinking makes you crazy — and renders everything possible.

You want to believe there are limits to what money can make happen, lines it can't cross.

Don't mask self-doubt with contempt.

Sometimes in this life you have to take risks on other people.

Faith involves an acceptance of absurdity.

When the fat lady is singing. When the walls are falling in, and the sky is dark, and the ground is rumbling. In that moment our actions will define us. And it makes no difference whether you are being watched by Allah, Jesus, Buddha, or whether you are not. On cold days a man can see his breath, on a hot day he can't. On both occasions, the man breathes.

she believed in her own good timing, in timing itself, as a mystical force, a form of fate, operating at the global and cosmic level as much as at the personal.

We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship...Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

She was that age. Whatever she said burst like genius into centuries of silence. Whatever she touched was the first stroke of its kind. Whatever she believed was not formed by faith but carved from certainty. Whatever she thought was the first time such a thought had ever been thunk.

If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister.

It's a part of what art is here to imagine for us and with us. (I'm a sentimental humanist: I believe art is here to help, even if the help is painful—especially then.)

you go back and back and back and it's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe. Do you think anybody is English? Really English? It's a fairy-tale!

He was no great believer in destiny, Archie, but on reflection it did seem that a special effort of predestination had ensured his life had been picked out for him like a company Christmas present—early, and the same as everyone else's.

Don't let your mind set limits that aren't really there.

It just goes to show,' said Alsana, revealing her English tongue, "you go back and back and back and it's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

It's so funny how many people today really believe themselves to be the most advanced people who ever lived, 'the arc of history bending towards justice' or whatever the quote is. To me, being attendant to history is a kind of resistance. It offers the possibility of alternative worlds, that there is a reality outside the one we are living in.

We have different ideas about things. Specifically we have different ideas about what a person is, or should be.

But i cannot be worrying-worrying all the time about the *truth*. I have to worry about the truth that can be *lived with*.