Quotes About Belief

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.

Perhaps we are cursed,' Karkasy told the empty fane, 'to crave something which does not exist. There are no gods, no spirits, no daemons. So we make them up, to comfort ourselves.

But he knows, and I know, and you know, that any defence is only as strong as its weakest part: faith, belief, trust.

Believe me, Harlon, in the length and breadth of this great Imperium of Man, there is no such thing as coincidence." - Gideon Ravenor

La diferencia entre dioses y demonios depende en gran medida de la posición en la que se encuentre uno en ese momento - Primarca Lorgar

Belief.' He reached into his vest and pulled out the silver aquila that he wore alongside his old dog-tags. 'In wartime, call it courage. In peacetime, call it faith. In the Guard, I saw men do amazing things... fight off infection, heal wounds... just because they believed. And I saw men die just because they didn't.

Heretics are the only ones worth trusting,' the voice said, 'for they have everything to gain and everything to lose.

The truth we convey is the truth, because we say it is the truth. Is that enough?

But the ritual can be good too. It focuses the mind on the act of belief. Devotion through deed is fair enough, but most of the time all you're thinking about is the deed itself, not the devotion. Making time to go to the temple reminds you it's just about the divine. About you and your relationship to the power above us all.

As a warrior, I am a man of conscience, and that conscience is directed by my faith in the Emperor.

I have used up my days believing I serve the Throne above all, but this is the filth I am dragged into.' 'Me too,' I said. 'That's something I might have said of my own life. Nothing wears an honest face. Those we admire disappoint us, or betray us. What truth may be found is uglier and more cruel than our worst expectations.

Pherhaps we are cursed', Karkasy told the empty fane, 'to crave something which does not exist. There are no gods, no spirits, no daemons. So we make them up, to comfort ourselves'.

I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.

The difference between gods and daemons largely depends upon where one is standing at the time.

Perhaps we are cursed," Karkasy told the empty fane, "to crave something which does not exist. There are no gods, no spirits, no daemons. So we make them up, to comfort ourselves.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

Our ideal self is revealed in what we value (passion), how we understand the world (belief), and what we do to reach our ideal (behavior). Our passion, belief, and behavior fit together so intimately that I can say this with confidence: • What we do is what we really value.

Hope refuses to believe that the inevitable is so. What has always been and can't change is an illusion; if anything is true, it is that change is inevitable, not that the inevitable will not change. But evil caustically replies, Nonsense. It is what it is. You will only be more discouraged and frustrated until you accept reality.

Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it cant be taken on its own merits.

Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

There is no "universal moral urge" and not all ethical systems agree. Polygamy, human sacrifice, infanticide, cannibalism (Eucharist), wife beating, self-mutilation, foot binding, preemptive war, torture of prisoners, circumcision, female genital mutilation, racism, sexism, punitive amputation, castration and incest are perfectly "moral" in certain cultures. Is god confused?