Quotes About Belief

Nothing upsets the unbeliever as much as defenses of Christianity based on intellectual skepticism and internal experience.

Authentic atheism is as important to human intelligence as infinity is to imagination.

The cause of the modern disease is the conviction that man can cure himself.

To be a revolutionary one must be a little daft; to be a conservative, a little cynical.

There are two equally erroneous attitudes toward Marxism: disdaining what it teaches, believing what it promises.

To be on the left is to believe that the omens of catastrophe are omens of prosperity.

All science feeds on the convictions that it strangles.

Apologetics should mix skepticism and poetry. Skepticism to strangle idols, poetry to seduce souls.

Gnosticism and Christianity start from the same point, but go in different directions. From the same definition of the human condition, Christianity infers that man is a creature, while the Gnostic infers he is a god.

By embracing the "modern mentality," Christianity became a doctrine which it is not easy to respect, nor interesting to do so.

In the bosom of the Church today, 'integralists' are those who do not understand that Christianity needs a new theology, and 'progressives' are those who do not understand that the new theology must be Christian.

We who want to admit nothing but what has value, will always seem naïve to those who recognize nothing but what is in force.

there were at least three that we know of, public efforts and proposals by Russia to be considered for Nato membership, begin the process. And all of those were turned down. So the prospect moving forward was of Nato being the non-Russia, the security organization aimed at Excluding Russia from European security.... as John Mearsheimer will tell you, it's not about what people claim, it's about what the other side believes that you might do to them.

At times truth may not seem probable.

Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemblable. (At times truth may not seem probable)

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

I listened eagerly to what they had to say and religiously followed their tips. Whatever I was told to buy, I bought. It took me a long time to discover that this is one method that never works.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

The great Creator has divided His power with no other being; far less with inanimate objects, as you have been taught to believe, for He alone is omnipotent and all-sufficient.

Don't mistake passion and purpose for demagoguery. I choose emotion over apathy. Being completely rational is overrated.

I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

As long as I've given something the best I can, have really committed, everything else is up to God.

I don't believe fundamentally in anything but the awakening of spirit, hope, and freedom.