Quotes About Belief

For us the existence of God is the great presupposition of theology. There is no sense in speaking of the knowledge of God, unless it may be assumed that God exists. The

It is a fact too little known, but as far as I am concerned undeniable, that Providence has a great sense of humor, and of course, the best!

W rzeczy samej, na obecnym etapie naszej wiedzy na ten temat, sny mog? by? jedynie oparami naszej wyobra?ni. Jak powiedzia? Bertrand Russell: "nie wierz?, ?e teraz ?ni?, ale nie mog? dowie??, ?e tak nie jest". Mora? z tego taki, ?e w naszych nocnych podró?ach jest wi?cej sensu, ni?by si? nam mog?o wydawa?.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

I do not want you to believe any of this because it is all crap, but it is the crap in which the piles of our pseudo-European culture are embedded, so you had better understand it because no one who does not understand the history and taxonomy of crap will ever come to know the difference between crap and pseudocrap and noncrap.

Nada es mentira. Basta con un poco de fe y todo es real.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

The eyes of faith are not always bright. At times they can see only dim shadows, like rough shapes reflected in a worn and dusty mirror. Yet even then, especially then, the faithful are called to trust in the promises of old and to believe that the time and place of their birth are no accident. For faith sees not only that history is meaningful, that it is going someplace, but also understands its own limited role within that history.

Scientific and religious beliefs are important to people; but they are (usually) neither foundational premises, backing one outcome in advance against all others, nor ex post facto rationalizations, disguising personal preferences in the language of impersonal authority. They are only tools for decision making, one of the pieces people try to bundle together with other pieces, like moral teachings and selfish interests and specific information, when they need to reach a decision.

No belief, James thought, is justified by its correspondence with reality, because mirroring reality is not the purpose of having minds.

If behaving as though we had free will or God exists gets us results we want, we will not only come to believe those things; they will be, pragmatically, true.

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.

understanding the excitement that drove this religion requires that we consider always the perspectives of the faithful.

A lot of people don't believe in curses. A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.