Quotes About Belief

I know there was no God waiting for her, because no God could have let her find Him this soon.

I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

É uma grande mentira dizer que só existe uma pessoa com quem se vai ficar pelo resto da vida. Se tiver sorte? E se se esforçar bastante? Sempre haverá mais de uma.

Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just take a nice silly walk in Central Park with.

I want to believe that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, there is reason to hope.

But it is my believed that one gets back what he puts out. The only way to truly earn regard is to conduct oneself with the utmost honor and respect.

I don't think I'm strong enough," Aaron said. Slowly the steam faded from the pub's windows. Helen was staring across the street as well. She said, "How do you think people get strong?

If a Jew tell a lie because the truth of his faith cannot be tolerated by those around him, shouldn't one then prosecute the world rather than the Jew?

I do not refute the divine, but only its false depiction, and my thinking is maligned by any who say otherwise.

How wrong she'd been, to believe a mind could reign over anything. For it did not reign even over itself . . . and despite all the arguments of all the philosophers, Ester now saw that thought proved nothing.

How wrong she'd been, to believe a mind could reign over anything. For it did not reign even over itself . . . and despite all the arguments of all the philosophers, Ester now saw that thought proved nothing. Had Descartes, near his own death, come at last to see his folly?

Some women, Ester, like to believe their hearts are made of glass, which must shatter if they so much as think of a sin. Oh Ester, shatter

It is not God's will," Aaron quoted, "that Jews should wager on the Messiah as dicers will.

he no longer had enough faith in anger's utility to pursue its course.

When any man of any nation cries out in his wish to know God, then his questions merit considering.

The God the tradition spoke of must necessarily wish for the well-being of His creations. Either there was no such God, then....or perhaps there existed only a God who could do nothing to alter the world's evils. Then did God quake in helpless fear at the roar of fire, the cry of a mob? Did God too tremble at times with the rage and confusion?

What right have they to disdain a martyr?

And to this I add: there is no divine intervention. There is no divine judge. So we must supply for ourselves notions of good and ill. This is the purview and millstone of the philosophe.

Hope against reason: an opiate she'd long abandoned.

The contemporary belief that the family meal is a place where children learn to become members of a moral society owes much to the Dutch.

Belief traps or frees us.

Nihilism is not the last word. The last word is imagination.

two people: the one inside that was the truth, and the one outside that almost everyone believed him to be.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)