Quotes About Belief

The Romans say, 'You must', the Protestant Nonconformists say, 'You must not', the Catholic Church of England says, 'You may.' [regarding the practice of confession; Overture to Death, chapter 17]

Mara reih he lei aw vei. Khazohpa eima theina hawhta chakao hai pi ta, missionary eima theina zydua ta chyh hai pi ta, MWC ta a theina hawhta Mara reih hmahpasiesa awpa ta ahria hai.

money is a matter of belief, even faith: belief in the person paying us; belief in the person issuing the money he uses or the institution that honours his cheques or transfers. Money is not metal. It is trust inscribed. And it does not seem to matter much where it is inscribed: on silver, on clay, on paper, on a liquid crystal display.

It's a blindness thing, faith.

Someone has said religion lasted longer in Ireland because we were an imaginative people, and so could most vividly picture the fires of Hell.

When you've been raised inside a religion, it's not a small thing to step outside it. Even if you no longer believe in it, you can feel its absence. There's a spirit-would to a Sunday. You can patch it, but it's there, whether natural or invented not for me to say.

It is what writers do, imagine and feel the pain of others, sometimes at the expense of feeling their own. Here, then, in these pages is mine, the fear of death, of loss, of unexpressed love. Here is the truth told in a story. And in the telling of it perhaps I have found some way to have courage, to believe.

Is that true, Ruth?' Mrs Quinty asked, eyes enormous and brows lifted, missing altogether the point of stories.

Faith is the most peculiar thing. It's Number One in human mysteries. Because how do you do it? Where do you learn it?

The nobleman fell to his knees. 'Sir, come down to my son ere he die.' His old face. His love for his son. None of us spoke, the old man kneeling so. I watched your eyes. The pity that pooled, this love of the father. 'Go thy way; thy son lives,' you said. And he raised his face to you, and we could see that he believed.

To have hope you have to have faith. That's the crazy bit. You have to believe things could get better. You have no idea how exactly, but somehow. It's a blindness thing, faith.

all plots turn out right in the end.

When I was twelve years old god spoke to my father for the first time.

My hope has a small h.

his belief in what the poet called the holiness of the heart's affections

like all male lovers he had quickly built a rose-coloured version that matched his own hope:

Trying is terrifying because I know I will just fail. But I do want things to be different. I do...I am so afraid. I'm afraid to hope again.

Basically I've just really been trusting in the process here. I want it to work. I want to change and I actually have hope that it might be possible. A lot of this is due to some of the more intense alternative therapies they offer here, like Somatic Experiencing. Through these sessions I've been able to recall events from my childhood that I had completely suppressed from my memory.

NO CREO EN LA VÍA PACÍFICA no creo en la vía violenta me gustaría creer en algo —pero no creo creer es creer en Dios lo único que yo hago es encogerme de hombros perdónenme la franqueza no creo ni en la Vía Láctea

supongamos que fue crucificado supongamos incluso que se levantó de la tumba —todo eso me tiene sin cuidado—

creo más en el verbo que en la acción pero no se me juzgue por lo que digo sino por lo que dejo de decir

Si he de conceder crédito a lo dicho por la gente que trajo la noticia debo creer, sin vacilar un punto, que murió con mi nombre en las pupilas

Convénzanse que no hay dios.

Cuesta bastante trabajo creer En un dios que deja a sus creaturas Abandonadas a su propia suerte A merced de las olas de la vejez Y de las enfermedades Para no decir nada de la muerte.