Quotes About Belief

One's own belief in human excellence is one of the ultimate signs of the skewness that man himself has invented, his role in everything. Sublimely, however, we are aware of our own coming doom through a quick glance at the world around us.

Our perception of reality is cultural & changing cultural views change reality.

Wer leichter glaubt, wird schwerer klug.

Keith Thomas' Magic and the Decline of Religion (1971).

Like most people at the time, Hitler believed that women who did not have children would eventually become mentally ill.

If you are actively believing in the reality of what you are seeing, you are caught in your ego.

Leaving the relative and predictable comfort of prison can be traumatic. Living free means not holding on to anything, even your most cherished beliefs and ideals.

An open and unguarded heart is the natural result of relaxing into trust.

Gott wäre natürlich prima. Aber er könnte, wenn es ihn gäbe, nicht deutlicher sein, als er durch seine Abwesenheit ist. So ist er das Wort für alles, was mir fehlt.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

Great is truth and it prevails. 3 Esdras 4.41

Her old dad used to say God is good, and he was good, but he was also very busy. He just needed a bit of help now and again.

There was an old Irish saying of my nana's – she always said you get the life you deserve. I hope against hope that there was no truth in that. But only time will tell.

people who feel she ain't

Imelda believed in God because she felt that there had to be something else, something after all this, and also because anyone who was still being worshipped and adored after all that time had to have something going for them.

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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. Martin Luther, 1483-1546

life was just a series of events, that was all, and you had no real power over it whatsoever. You just thought you did.

Just because you see something doesn't mean it's really there.

And I mean, if there is a God it's probably a good idea to believe in him. But if there isn't a God, then we're just an accident of nature, a virus, pond scum gone berserk, and it won't matter one way or another if I believe or not because who cares? And so if it doesn't matter, then I choose to believe. There's something mindful about it, about the universe having a heart, us being watched over, maybe life and everything meaning something.

She learned that there is a cruelty in the world. She did not yet understand that those who hurt others do so because they believe that people desire to hurt them. She did not know yet that such people suffer more than the ones they hurt, for they must live in their own skin, in a world of their own making, a world full of enemies.

when so many people try to beat the angel out of you, you hang on for dear life.

When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did?

vous avez juste besoin d'une personne qui croie an vous pour réussir et ses vous