Quotes About Belief

I yearn for a culture of evangelism that never trades confidence in the gospel for confidence in techniques, personalities, or entertainment gimmicks.

Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair.

It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.

They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself.

As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it's only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it's gone forever.

I had once been naïve enough to believe that all would be well if you lived by the rules. Good things happened to good people, blessed are the meek, et cetera, et cetera. How disillusioned I have become since then. It hurt, because I wondered now what all the discipline, repression, and suppression had been for if it had not procured me the thing I had most wanted, and it certainly did not guarantee happiness.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

The gift is the gift of the path to a richer, more responsible humanness; authenticity includes the choice to make an act of will despite desire, not simply bringing desire and will into line. To choose to believe, to choose to continue to believe, to choose to be faithful, loyal, and trustworthy, despite all the pressures to unbelief and disloyalty, is typical of the choices that constitute, or contribute toward, the life of Christian virtue.

In health, then, children develop enough belief in themselves and in other people to hate external controls of all kinds, controls have changed over into self-control. In self-control the conflict has been worked through within the person in advance. So I see it this way: good condi- tions in the early stages lead to a sense of security, and a sense of security leads on to seIf-control, and when selfcontrol is a fact, then security that is imposed is an insult (36).

Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have no trust are unable to accept it, however much they hear it.

For Duke Pietro the history of the family, however full of myth and fantasy, is more real than the tales told by the priests.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

"To forgive oneself"? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality.

Faith is nothing but knowledge that what we understand is only a shadow of the Unknown. Faith is the science of the pitiful limitations of man's mental scope.

Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell-by date. Justice does not.

God, she was convinced, would look the other way. It was Christmas after all.

History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.