Quotes About Belief

The Good Lord doesn't allow taxation of His workers and you must respect that.

Know this: even if you're like us and still doddering around above ground, someone out there from your past is probably pretty sure that you're dead by now. (p.125 )

So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there no limits,

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose if you belittle yourself, you are believed if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d'articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd'huy? How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.

A truly modern man, William Rackham is what might be called a superstitious atheist Christian; that is, he believes in a God who, while He may no longer be responsible for the sun rising, the saving of the Queen or the provision of daily bread, is still the prime suspect when anything goes wrong.

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

On Sunday morning I went out for a while in the neighbourhood; I bought some raisin bread. The day was warm but a little sad, as Sundays often are in Paris, especially when one doesn't believe in God.

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

Si la sincérité, en elle-même, n'est rien, elle est la condition de tout.

That old queer Nietzsche had it right: Christianity was, at the end of the day, a feminine religion.

Adolescent, Michel croyait que la souffrance donnait à l'homme une dignité supplémentaire. Il devait maintenant en convenir: il s'était trompé. Ce qui donnait à l'homme une dignité supplémentaire, c'était la télévision.