Quotes About Belief

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed

Dar din tulburarea de nedescris a sufletului meu a È›âÈ™nit în mine o idee, aidoma unei lumini str?lucitoare în noapte: cine se poate resemna s? se resemneze, dar, dac? eÈ™ti în stare s? crezi, atunci crede! ?i m-am ridicat de jos, nu ca un om resemnat, ci ca un credincios È™i n-am mai avut alt gând decât: ea, nimeni alta.

To me, that book has been both a revelation and a gospel.

For look: people used to think that the earth was flat. That was true, and still is today, of, say, Paris to Asniéres. But that does not alter the fact that science demonstrates that the earth as a whole is round, something nobody nowadays disputes. For all that, people still persist in thinking that life is flat and runs from birth to death. But life, too, is probably round, and much greater in scope and possibilities than the hemisphere we now know.

For one's own work, thoughts and observation are not enough, we need the comfort and blessing and guidance of a higher power, and that is something anyone who is at all serious and who longs to lift up his soul to the light is sure to recognize and experience. Pining for God works like leaven on dough.

Biri Rembrandt'? seviyor diyelim, ama ciddi seviyor, o kiÅŸi Tanr?'n?n var olduÄŸunu bilir ve derinden inan?r. Biri Frans?z Devrimi'nin tarihini inceliyor diyelim, o kiÅŸi imans?z olamaz, en büyük ÅŸeylerin gerisinde de tanr?sal bir erkin kendini gösterdiÄŸini anlar.

O que eu quero dizer e o que eu aspiro é tremendamente difícil, e no entanto não acredito estar aspirando alto demais.

O mal é que estou bastante propenso a me deixar impressionar, a sentir eu próprio as crenças de outrem e a nem sempre questionar o fundo de verdade que possa existir no absurdo.

Acabo de ler O ano terrível de Victor Hugo. Nele há esperança, mas... esta esperança está nas estrelas. Acho isto verdadeiro e bem dito e belo, aliás acredito nisto de bom grado.

Osecaj, cak i istancan osecaj za lepotu prirode nije jednak religioznom osecanju, mada verujem da su oba intimno povezana... gotovo svako poseduje osecaj za prirodu... ali samo malo njih oseca: Bog je duh, i onoi koji u njega veruju, moraju to ciniti i u duhu i u stvarnosti.

But I, for my part, am convinced that in this respect one can have faith in modern art. The fact that I have a definite belief about art makes me sure of what I want in my own work, and I shall try to reach it even at the risk of my own life.

You have changed since then, you are no longer the same." Well, that is not entirely true. What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.

Is the Bible enough for us? These days I think Jesus himself would say again to those who sit down in melancholy, "It is not here, it is risen. Why seek ye the living among the dead?

Ce que l'homme tue Dieu le ressuscite [What man kills God resuscitates].

Ben bunlar?n hiçbirini bilmem ama ruhunda kendini yenileyebilecek kadar enerjisi olan insana sayg? göstermesini bilirim. Tanr?m yaÅŸad???m?z çaÄŸ bir tembeller, ayaklar ça??d?r diye yak?namay?z, madem cennete pek inanamad?klar? halde bu çeÅŸit bir hayat süren bu tip inanlar ya??yor dünyam?zda.1

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life - the power to create. And if, defrauded of the power to create physically, a man tries to create thoughts in place of children, he is still very much part of humanity.

Neither Gauguin nor Bernard has written again. I think that Gauguin doesn't care a damn about it, because it isn't going to be done at once, and I for my part, seeing that Gauguin has managed to muddle along by himself for six months, am ceasing to believe in the urgent necessity of helping him.

Indeed, illness or death holds no terror for me, but happily for us, ambition is not compatible with the callings we follow. There are so many people in all classes of society, from the highest to the lowest, who believe that, anyway.

The man of faith, of energy, of warmth… steps in and does something.

You get angry whenever I expostulate with you, or rather you don't give a damn, and all the rest of it, which we know by now, and yet I believe a time will come when, of your own accord, you will come to the conclusion that you have been too weak to persevere in trying to help me regain some credit with people.

I think it a splendid saying of Victor Hugo's, "les religions passent, mais Dieu demure" [religions pass away, but God remains];

Faith," I said. "What's that?" "It's believing in something you can't see, hear, or feel.

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

Vinny Flynn