Quotes About Belief

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race.

We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

The question is not whether we will be extremists but what kind of extremist will we be.

The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Cary and Lilac both shared some sort of optimistic new-age philosophy, the general gist of which was that things usually turned out all right if you just expected them to. Their problems therefore settled, they carried on placing daisies in each other's hair.

RenunÅ£area la inteligenÅ£a veritabil? este preÅ£ul care trebuie pl?tit pentru a avea certitudini, ÅŸi este întotdeauna o cheltuial? invizibil? la banca conÅŸtiinÅ£ei noastre, în sensul ?sta, îi prefer pe cei care nu se-nv?luie în mantia raÅ£iunii ÅŸi recunosc caracterul fictiv al credinÅ£ei lor.

Men simplify the world with words and thoughts, and that's how they create their certainties; and having certainty is the most potent pleasure in this world, far more potent than money, sex, and power all combined. Renouncing

InteligenÅ£a te face nefericit, singuratic, s?rac, pe cînd deghizarea inteligenÅ£ei îÅ£i confer? o imortalitate de hîrtie de ziar ÅŸi admiraÅ£ia celor care cred în ce citesc.

Without such beliefs and stories, as Carl Jung put it, we would be 'crushed by the sheer awe-fullness of the universe'. In other words, without a story to give us a place in the greater picture, we will become lost or, even worse, think that we are the story.

[On extraterrestrial life:] Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

Now I know that the songs are just tools that help us get in the right place for the presence of God to become real and tangible to us

Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we're going to separate destinations.

Getting confirmation of one's own creation is based solely on uncertainty and a lack of focus in one's own thinking.