Quotes About Belief

Rites preserve, sermons undermine faith.

It is upon the antinomies of reason, upon the scandals of the spirit, upon the ruptures in the universe, that I base my hope and my faith.

No hay tontería en que el hombre moderno no sea capaz de creer, siempre que eluda creer en Cristo

Our last hope lies in the injustice of God.

That Christianity cures social diseases, as some say, or that, on the contrary, it poisons the society that adopts it, as others assert, are theses that interest the sociologist but are of no interest for a Christian. A convert to Christianity has converted because he believes it is true.

Sólo de causas perdidas se puede ser partidario irrestricto.

In light of the majority of people today, one prefers them to speak hostile of religion

The racist errs by believing that pure races exist, the anti-racist by believing that the ingredients of a beverage are of no importance.

Austeridad, resignación, modestia, según el dogma moderno, son servidumbres ideológicas.

Das Individuum, das eine authentische Berufung hat, ist reaktionär, welcher Art die Überzeugungen auch seien, die es hegt. Demokrat ist, wer erwartet, daß die Außenwelt ihm Ziele setzt.

The leftist, like the polemicist of yesteryear, believes he refutes an opinion by accusing the holder of that opinion of immorality.

That Christianity may not solve social problems is no reason to commit apostasy except for those who forget that it never promised to solve them.

The incorrigible political error of the man of good will is to presuppose naively that at every moment it is possible to do what must be done. Here, where what is necessary is often impossible.

Yesterday we believed that it was sufficient to scorn what man achieves; today we know that we must also scorn what he desires.

There are fewer ambitious individuals in the world today than individuals who believe they are morally obliged to be ambitious.

It is not the origin of religions, or their cause, which requires explanation, but rather the cause and origin of their eclipse and neglect.

The word "humanity" in the mouth of a Catholic is a sign of apostasy, in the unbeliever's a sign of coming bloodbaths.

Die Versuchung des Paganismus ist nicht die Immortalität, sondern der Moral. Ein ungläubiger Heide hat die Ethik erfunden.

Democrats can be divided into those who believe wickedness is curable and those who deny it exists.

Die Wahrheit des Menschen ist nichts weiter als eine aufrichtige Überzeugung. Wahrheit ist, was wir als Wahrheit beurteilen, nachdem wir die Gründe erwogen, die Argumente bedacht und unsere Überzeugung auf das breiteste Fundament der Aufrichtigkeit und Ehrlichkeit gestellt haben. Die Wahrheit ist eine Tugend - wie die Blüte, die manchen harten und knorrigen moralischen Wurzeln entstammt. Vielleicht sollte man in der Logik lediglich ein Kapitel der Ethik sehen.

The modern Christian feels professionally obligated to act jovially and jokingly, to show his teeth in a cheerful grin, to profess a slavering friendliness, in order to prove to the unbeliever that Christianity is not a "somber" religion, a "pessimistic" doctrine, an "ascetic" morality. The progressive Christian shakes our hand with the wide grin of a politician running for office.

There are two equally erroneous attitudes toward Marxism: disdaining what it teaches, believing what it promises. I understand that Communism which is a protest, but not that which is a hope.

Religion did not arise out of the need to assure social solidarity, nor were cathedrals built to encourage tourism.

Man has as much of a soul as he believes he has. When that belief dies, man becomes an object.