Quotes About Belief

Only three things are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since we can do nothing with the first two, we must do what we can with the third.

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or could live in them all. It's obvious, it stares you in the fact. There must be a God and he can't know anything about us.

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

There are three types of intelligent persons: the first so intelligent that being called very intelligent must seem natural and obvious; the second sufficiently intelligent to see that he is being flattered, not described; the third so little intelligent that he will believe anything. I knew I belonged to the second kind.

The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe - so long as it's something more than belief in your own comfort.

I don't believe in God. And I certainly don't feel chosen. I think you may be. I smiled dubiously. Thank you. It is not meant as a compliment. Hazard makes you elect. You cannot elect yourself.

Your first reaction is the characteristic one of your contrasuggestible century: to disbelieve, to disprove. I see this very clearly underneath your politeness.

No religion is the only religion, no church the true church.

If I could put a starving child before him and give it food and let him watch it grow well, I know he'd give money. But everything beyond what he pays for and sees himself get is suspicious to him. He doesn't believe in any other world but the one he lives in and sees. He's the one in prison; in his own hateful narrow present world.

A fost odat? un tân?r prinÈ› care credea în toate lucrurile, în afar? de trei. Nu credea în prinÈ›ese, nu credea în insule, nu credea în Dumnezeu. Împ?ratul, tat?l s?u, îi spusese c? aceste lucruri nu exist?. ?i cum nu erau nici prinÈ›ese, nici insule È™i nici vreun semn al existenÈ›ei lui Dumnezeu în împ?r??ia tat?lui s?u, tân?rul prinÈ› îi d?du crezare.

I have hope. But it's all an illusion.

Because I don't understand Him. Why He is, who He is, or how He is. And Maurice tells me I am quite intelligent. I think God must be very intelligent to be so much more intelligent than I am. To give me no clues. No certainties. No sights. No reasons. No motives.

Singurul lucru cu adev?rat important este s? simÈ›i È™i s? tr?ieÈ™ti pentru lucrurile în care crezi - atâta vreme cât nu te limitezi s? crezi numai în propriul t?u confort.

Trebuie s? faci întotdeauna ceva. Când crezi cu adev?rat în ceva, trebuie s? acÈ›ionezi. A te mulÈ›umi s? vorbeÈ™ti despre acÈ›iune este ca È™i cum te-ai l?uda dinainte cu tablourile pe care ai de gând s? le pictezi. E de cel mai îngrozitor prost gust.

I saw that this cataclysm must be an expiation for some barbarous crime of civilization, some terrible human lie. What the lie was, I had too little knowledge of history or science to know then. I know now it was our believing that we were fulfilling some end, serving some plan—that all would come out well in the end, because there was some great plan over all. Instead of the reality. There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe—so long as it's something more than belief in your own comfort.

Prima dumitale reacÈ›ie este tipic? pentru acest secol care nu admite nimic, un secol care nu crede, nu aprob?. Asta se ascunde în spatele politeÈ›ii dumitale. EÈ™ti ca È™i ariciul. Când ariciul îÈ™i scoate È›epii nu poate mânca. Cine nu m?nânc? moare de foame. Èšepii dispar odat? cu trupul.

M. How do you think Christianity started? Or anything else? With a little group of people who didn't give up hope.

In some profound way, beyond all his reasons and his experience, he was no more than an egoist - he had what I had always detected, and loathed, in Conservative philosophy… the belief that the fortunate must at all costs be allowed to retain their good fortune

Nos falta confianza en el presente, en el momento actual, en la visión efectiva, porque nuestra cultura nos dice que debemos confiar solo en lo que se ha conseguido y explicado en el pasado, en lo que se ha formulado de forma pública, lo que se ha editado, lo que se ha expuesto siguiendo los parámetros de una perspectiva claramente artística o claramente científica.

It is not try but trust." That is the secret of Christ's salvation; that is the secret of Christ's healing. It is not trying to get healed. It is trusting Him for it, and believing Him when He says He will do it, and the mind relaxes and the soul comes to rest.

our hearts, we saw that as a lie, no doubt

Oh! isn't it stupid, the war?-as if it was not good to be alive. He wanted to say: You can't tell how good it is to be alive till you're facing death, because you don't live till then. And when a whole lot of you feel like that-and are ready to give their lives for each other, it's worth all the rest of life put together. But he couldn't get it out to this girl who believed in nothing.