Quotes About Belief

People without religion are capable of anything.

Quand on connaît Paris, on ne croit à rien de ce qui s'y dit, et on ne dit rien de ce qui s'y fait.

It is so natural to believe in the realization of a noble vision, in the Brotherhood of Man. But, alas! the human machine does not have such divine proportions. Souls that are vast enough to grasp a range of feelings bestowed on great men only will never belong to either fathers of families or simple citizens.

You are mistaken there, my dear child," said Madame de Godollo. "Pascal, who was himself a great example of the falseness of your point of view, says, if I am not mistaken, that a little science draws us from religion, but a great deal draws us back to it.

Pascal said that "the doubt of God implies belief in God.

The two priests, the chorister, and the beadle came, and said and did as much as could be expected for seventy francs in an age when religion cannot afford to say prayers for nothing.

Of course I know," said Madame Massin, "that the Abbe Chaperon is an honest man; but he is capable of anything for the sake of his poor. He must have mined and undermined uncle, and the old man has just tumbled into piety. We did nothing, and here he is perverted! A man who never believed in anything, and had principles of his own! Well! we're done for. My husband is absolutely beside himself.

Kendi kendine ?i?inen, gelece?e biraz erken inanm?? bir-iki yaygarac?y? da yaln?z aptallar adam yerine koyar.

The man is mad!" exclaimed Bianchon. "You think so, do you?" said his uncle. "If you listen to only one bell, you hear only one sound.

we often subject ourselves to sentiments by our own volition, — deliberately bind ourselves, and create our own fate; chance has not as much to do with it as we believe.

Les erreurs de la femme viennent presque toujours de sa croyance au bien, ou dans sa confiance dans le vrai

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to

And give up the white man's god—his ugly god, his lying god, his torturous god, his thieving god, his tricking god, and rebuke his missionaries who had one set of rules for white Christians and another for Christians among the people, and who, when asked, talked crossways, so that one word followed the next down a line leading to a place where buzzards roosted and called out beaked noise.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

and so convinced are we that each mood while it lasts will be the permanent temper of our soul

And then the disquieting thought would come to him that perhaps after all epitaphs are not altogether to be trusted.

Fairyland is the place where what we look upon as symbols and figures actually exist and occur

Besides, there was that foolish feeling of his that reality was not solid, and that facts were only plastic toys; or, rather, that they were poisonous plants, which you need not pluck unless you choose. And, even if you do pluck them, you can always fling them from you and leave them to wither on the ground. He

And the real anchor is not hope but faith — even if it be only somebody else's faith.

there was that foolish feeling of his that reality was not solid, and that facts were only plastic toys; or, rather, that they were poisonous plants, which you need not pluck unless you choose. And, even if you do pluck them, you can always fling them from you and leave them to wither on the ground.

The law plays fast and loose with reality- and no one really believes it.

Never despair.