Quotes About Belief

I presume that in the heaven of the Blessèd there are those who believe that the advantages of that locale are much exaggerated by theologists, who have never been there themselves. And perhaps in hell the damned are not always happy.

Me creo indigno del Infierno o de la Gloria, pero nada predigo.

Ya no es mágico el mundo. Te han dejado.

There is nothing more characteristic of a country than its imaginations. - Prologue to The Tiger Guest, P'u Sung-ling

El Ángel me decía que los carneros no eran del color de los tigres, el Satán me decía que el Poderoso quería que lo fueran y se valía de mi astucia y mi púrpura. Ahora yo sé que el Ángel y el Satán erraban la verdad y que todo color es aborrecible.

A realidade não tem a mínima obrigação de ser interessante ... A realidade pode prescindir dessa obrigação, mas não as hipóteses.

descree de Dios, pero quiere demostrar al Dios no existente que los hombres mortales son capaces de concebir un mundo.

Buckley did not believe in God, but he wanted to demonstrate to this non-existent God that mortal man was capable of conceiving a world.

Porque todo hombre culto es un teólogo, y para serlo no es indispensable la fe

Oscuramente creyó intuir que el pasado es la substancia de que el tiempo está hecho; por ello es que éste se vuelve pasado en seguida

LAS TRES LECCIONES DE DESMOND TUTU La primera lección es fundamental: saber que vas a ganar. Tutu está convencido de que la injusticia no puede ser algo permanente. Esta convicción de que la justicia se puede alcanzar permitió a Mandela sobrevivir durante veintisiete años en la cárcel

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 an artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it.

Si Dios no existe, todo es lícito. Si todo es lícito, sólo admitiré como norma para mí mis criterios de conveniencia. Si todo es lícito, nada es malo. Y si algo es malo, te fastidias.

Para tener paz, necesitamos de la fe, de todas las fuerzas de nuestra voluntad.

Si un científico se empecina en explicar eso con razones naturales lo único que demuestra es lo poco razonable que puede llegar a ser. Es decir, demostraría que está usando la razón a su antojo, como un medio para llegar a una verdad que ya ha decidido de antemano.

he affected great piety (as became a pilgrim), although unable to read the inspired words of the Prophet.

The way in which we see things can hardly be distinguished from the way in which we wish to see them.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

To begin with, convinced socialists will derive satisfaction from the mere fact of living in a socialist society.4 Socialist bread may well taste sweeter to them than capitalist bread simply because it is socialist bread, and it would do so even if they found mice in it.

Lots of times growing up, I'd just try to do something myself because I believed that being a boy, and being Indian, I should just know how to do things. -Will Bird, Through Black Spruce

In matters of the spirit, these sauvages believe that we all have within us a life force that is similar, if you will, to our own Catholic belief in the soul. They call this life force the orenda.

Believe your pain.' This awful bear hug is no mistake. Nothing that disturbs you is. Remember all along that there is no embrace in this world that won't finally unclasp.

In the end, there's always this city. As long as it exists, I don't believe that I, or for that matter, anyone, can be mesmerized or blinded by romantic tragedy.