Quotes About Belief

Pluralism makes a unifying myth impossible. But if we cannot reinstate such a mythology we can, at least, return to the source from which mythology springs - the creative imagination.

The third function is the sociological one—supporting and validating a certain social order. And here's where the myths vary enormously from place to place. You can have a whole mythology for polygamy, a whole mythology for monogamy. Either one's okay. It depends on where you are. It is this sociological function of myth that has taken over in our world—and it is out of date.

Sí. La idea de un dios siempre está culturalmente condicionada

Only God can judge me now

fear no man but only God

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.

with large trunk full of highbrow books (Spengler etc.)', and Pound read The Decline of the West 'in return for tips on XV century'. He told his father that 'As S. seems to mean by "The West" a lot of things I dislike, I shd. like to accept his infantine belief that they are "declining"';

Hope lies to mortalsAnd most believe her,But man's deceiverWas never mine.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

It's better to think the best of everyone and be wrong than assume the worst and be right.

Destiny was a hope found in the hearts of desperate men. But sometimes, if they believed strongly enough, desperate men could do great things.

Dreams are rarely founded on truth.

Nessy had never believed that fear and respect were the same thing. Nor did she believe that the castle's manners were beyond redemption, for although her accursed home was mostly bad it was at least a little bit good. She hoped it would be good enough.

I'll take hope over hopelessness everyday.

I've never believed in destiny. My personal philosophy is one of feigned entropic denial.

The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter ' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.