Quotes About Belief

Christianity offered

Bede consoled his readers that the two boys had gone gladly to their deaths, 'assured of their entry into the eternal kingdom'.

all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms had now accepted the faith of Christ.

we have almost no idea of how the vikings saw themselves, because as pagans they were illiterate,

had remained a Christian.

Boniface urged the king to destroy the graven images he and his people were currently worshipping.

not least because he eventually died a martyr's death,

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

André Breton was a lover of love in a world who believes in prostitution.

I don't believe in art. I believe in the artist.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Le sacrilège, la seule manière que les impies ont encore d'être dévots.

It is not simply to show power...that a man...throws coppers into the sea...In doing this he is also sacrificing to the gods and spirits...

Das ist die Schwäche der Vernunft: wir bedienen uns ihrer meist nur zur Rechtfertigung unseres Glaubens.

Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

When a belief vanishes, there survives it -- more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new things -- a fetishistic attachment to the old things which it did once animate, as if it was in them and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause -- the death of the gods.

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them; they can inflict on them continual blows of contradiction and disproof without weakening them; and an avalanche of miseries and maladies succeeding one another without interruption in the bosom of a family will not make it lose faith in either the clemency of its God or the capacity of its physician.

For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years' time. So that to believe in medicine would be the height of folly, if not to believe in it were not greater folly still, for from this mass of errors there have emerged in the course of time many truths.

Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside - they did not produce our beliefs, there, they do not destroy them.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission is, of all the prerequisites of love, the one which it values most highly and which makes it set little store by all the rest.

I remained serious. For one thing, I thought it stupid of her to appear to believe or to wish other people to believe that nobody, really, was as smart as herself. For another thing, people who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.