Quotes About Belief

I don't care how paranoid and irrational this makes me sound, but I know for a fact that the people of Paris want me dead.

Every life spends some time in the mud. Your faith hasn't really been tried until you have spent some time in the mud.

I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.

Notwithstanding the Marxist social workers, who like to maintain that it's so-called social deprivation rather than innate criminal tendencies which cause more unemployed black youths that Tory MPs to become muggers, I maintain an unfashionable belief in Original Sin. I make no apology for that. I'm sorry, but there it is.I see Distillers are up another 6p.

Enlightenment meant criticism, a belief that nothing was beyond rational improvement, and that nothing was justifiable that could not be shown to be useful to humanity, or to promote human happiness.

All love is lost but upon God alone.

be suspicious of any [theological] position that fulfills all our heart's desires.

Navajo heaven is not a solemn gray high refuse heap for humble failures.

that) but because God thought the whole thing up first. Fran illustrates this with the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where Michelangelo portrays the creation of

If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

The world is governed by opinion.

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

To live one's myth is to think in its terms. To fulfill one's myth is to suffer through its source.

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.

I've always subconsciously looked out for the total Christian and when I found him he turned out to be a non-practicing Jew.

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.

I decline to accept the end of man.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.