Quotes About Belief

Religion … denies goodness as a quality of human nature; man is wicked, corrupt, incapable of good; … on the other hand, God is only good[.]

The doctrine of immortality is the final doctrine of religion; … it speaks out what it has hitherto suppressed. If elsewhere the religious soul concerns itself with the existence of another being, here it openly considers only its own existence[.]

God as an object of thought … is always a remote being; the relation … is an abstract one, … So long as we have not met a being face to face, we are always in doubt whether he is really such as we imagine him; … Christ … is the … certainty that God is what the soul desires and needs him to be. … [O]nly in Christ is the last wish of religion realised, … [W]hat god is in essence, … Christ is in actual appearance.

T]hese days illusion only is scared, truth profane. … [S]acredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to highest degree of sacredness. Religion has disappeared, … for it has been substituted … the appearance of religion[.]

As Israel made the wants of his national existence the law of the world, as under the dominance of these wants he deified even his political vindictiveness; so the Christian made the requirements of human feeling the absolute powers and laws of the world. [T]hat is, indeed, only of man considered as Christian; for Christianity, in contradiction with the genuine universal human heart, recognised man only under the condition, the limitation, of belief in Christ.

La religion est le rêve de l'esprit humain

Samo je grob ?ovekov kolevka bogova.

Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in -- love.

Doctrines which can stand the trial of logic and reason can do without persecuting skeptics.

The Bolshevists persistently tell us that religion is opium for the people. Marxism is indeed opium for those who might take to thinking and must therefore be weaned from it.

Matem os infiéis! Queimem os hereges! O que é novo é apenas o fato de que hoje em dia ele é vendido ao público sob o rótulo de "ciência".

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

You're lying," he said-not angry, not accusing. Just as if he was stating the facts, in a way that she wasn't. "I am not-" "You can say it a million times, but that doesn't make it any more true." Peter smiled then, so guileless that Lacy felt it smart like a stripe from a whip. "You might be able to fool Dad, and the cops, and anyone else who'll listen," he said. "You just can't fool another liar.

there is still something about faith that I cannot let go of. I do not know what this world is, but I know that it contains miracles that I cannot explain, and the love that people have for each other is the biggest mystery of all.

We don't know what reality is," Rayanne says. "We just pretend we do, because it makes us feel like we're in control.

You cannot be doomed, after all, as long as you can still see the faint outline of hope on the opposite shore.

You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

The really amazing thing about all this is no matter what you believe,it took some doing to get from a point where there was nothing, to a point where all the right neurons fire and pop so that we can make decisions. More amazing is how even though that's become second nature, we all still manage to screw it up.

And he wonders if maybe Nina is right; if a superhero is nothing but an ordinary person who believes that she cannot fail.

I also mistakenly believed that the scariest stories came from imagination, not real life.