Quotes About Belief

My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.

Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

Pessimism is like optimism, only less dangerous.

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent

In these statements the interpretation of the speaker is given the same validity as the Bible, making the interpreter's words inerrant. I believe in the Bible, but not necessarily in how the Bible is interpreted by humans.

Por que en ti reconocemos al que proclamo la mas grande de las libertades humanas; la libertad de dudar, y por que moriste entre inmortales, orgullosos de ser mortal...!

Porque en ti reconocemos al que proclamo la mas grande de las libertades humanas; la libertad de dudar, y porque moriste entre inmortales, orgulloso de ser mortal...!

What a man has, so much he's sure of.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

What a man has, so much he is sure of.

Think not that when thou art dry and darksom in the presence of God, with faith and silence, that thou do'st nothing, that thou losest time, and that thou are idle, because not to wait on God, according to the saying of St. Bernard (Tom.5.in Fract. de vit. solit.c.8.p. 90.), is the greatest idleness

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to."

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.