Quotes About Belief

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

They've grown comfortable with their money,' I said. 'They genuinely believe they're entitled to it. This conviction gives them a kind of rude health. They glow a little.

I believed we could know what was happening to us. We were not excluded from our own lives. That is not my head on someone else's body in the photograph that's introduced as evidence. I didn't believe that nations play-act on a grand scale. I lived in the real.

Their bumper sticker read GUN CONTROL IS MIND CONTROL. In situations like this, you want to stick close to people in right-wing fringe groups.

Some people don't believe in God but they color eggs at Easter just to change the pattern of their days.

You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out - Murray (WN 285).

She wanted this only, to snuff out the pulse of the shaky faith she'd held for much of her life.

You don't believe in heaven? A nun?' 'If you don't, why should I?' 'If you did, maybe I would.' 'If I did, you would not have to.

A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.

When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.

You are sure that you are right but you don't want everyone to think as you do. There is no truth without fools.

Only shallow people insist on disbelief. You and I know better. We understand how reality is invented. A person sits in a room and thinks a thought and it bleeds out into the world. Every thought is permitted. And there's no longer a moral or spatial distinction between thinking and acting.

I'm not saying we shouldn't grieve. Just, why don't we put it in God's hands? she said. Why haven't we learned this, after all the evidence of all the dead? We're supposed to believe in God but then why don't we obey the laws of God's universe, which teach us how small we are and where we're all going to end up?

This spot was so close to perfect we would not even want to tell ourselves how lucky we were, having been delivered to it. The best of new places had to be protected from our own cries of delight. We would hold the words for weeks or months, for the soft evening when a stray remark would set us to recollecting. I guess we believed, together, that the wrong voice can obliterate a landscape.

I know it's thankless to be sensible in the face of someone's primitive distrust.

Tyle w nich by?o chrze?cija?stwa. I tak niewiele z Chrystusa.

I needed death in order to believe I was living, an atmosphere of death much more real and personal than anything the newspapers can offer.

There is another kind of belief, a second force, insecure, untrusting, a faith that is spring-fed by the things we fear in the night.

If your child thinks you're guilty of something, right or wrong, then you're guilty.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

Do we have to believe something happened exactly the way it was shown by artists?

When the Old God leaves the world, what happens to all the unexpended faith?

This is why we are here. A tiny minority. To embody old things, old beliefs. The devil, the angels, heaven, hell. If we did not pretend to believe these things, the world would collapse." "Pretend?" "Of course pretend. Do you think we are stupid? Get out from here." "You don't believe in heaven? A nun?" "If you don't, why should I?" "If you did, maybe I would." "If I did, you would not have to.

How much myth do we build into our experience of time?