Quotes About Belief

Habrá que aprender que la fortaleza no se mide por la posibilidad de conseguir un resultado inmediato, sino por la confianza en el propio potencial de lograrlo, cuando sea el momento adecuado.

Cuando creemos y confiamos en que de alguna forma se puede seguir adelante, nuestras posibilidades de avanzar se multiplican.

No vivimos en la realidad sino en nuestra imagen de ella.

Si ojos tienen que no me vean; si manos tienen que no me agarren; no permitas que me sorprendan por la espalda; no permitas que mi muerte sea violenta; no permitas que mi sangre se derrame; Tú que todo lo conoces, sabes de mis pecados, pero también sabes de mi fe, no me desampares, Amén.

A Osvaldo le pasó lo que a todos, que nos creemos el cuento de que nos va a ir bien en la vida.

Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno.

It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

A miracle has the right to impose conditions.

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it.

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.

Every cultivated man is a theologian, and faith is not a requisite.

Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.

Historical truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is what we judge to have happened.

Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality

I think the first reading of a poem is a true one, and after that we delude ourselves into the belief that the sensation the impression, is repeated. But, as I say, it may be mere loyalty,a mere trick of memory a mere confusion we once felt,thus it may be said that poetry is a new experience every time,every time I read a poem the experience happns to occur and that is poetry

Such a pity that he [GK Chesterton] became a Catholic.

I no longer believe in literary schools now; I believe in the individual.

If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.

Crees que la Caída es otra cosa que ignorar que estamos en el Paraíso?

I clarified that I myself was Colombian. What is 'being Colombian'? I'm not sure, I replied. It's an act of faith. Like being Norwegian, she said, nodding. I can recall nothing further of what was said that night.