Quotes About Belief

Europeans, since the days when they began to believe in :progress" and in "evolution," that is to say since a little more than a century ago, profess to see a sign of inferiority in this absence of change, whereas for our part, we look upon it as a balanced condition which Western civilization has failed to achieve.

We cannot help noticing that, like all propagandists, the apostles of tolerance, truth to tell, are very often the most intolerant of men.

d'ailleurs nous ne pouvons nous empêcher de constater que, comme tous les propagandistes, les apôtres de la tolérance sont très souvent, en fait, les plus intolérants des hommes.

tandis que le rationaliste vulgaire, fût-il l'homme le plus ignorant de toute philosophie, est au contraire le plus empressé à se proclamer tel, en même temps qu'il se pare fièrement du titre plutôt ironique de « libre-penseur », alors qu'il n'est en réalité que l'esclave de tous les préjugés courants de son époque.

il arrive malheureusement parfois que ceux qui croient combattre le diable, quelque idée qu'ils s'en fassent d'ailleurs, se trouvent ainsi tout simplement, sans s'en douter le moins du monde, transformés en ses meilleurs serviteurs !

Cela n'autorise-t-il pas à dire que la suprême habileté du diable, de quelque façon qu'on le conçoive, c'est de faire nier son existence ?

It is curious to note the widest read belief in antiquity that the omphalos had fallen from the sky, and an accurate idea of the sentiment of the Greeks regarding this stone can be had by saying it was somewhat similar to the sentiment Muslims feel with regard to the sacred black stone of the Kaaba.

Le succès de cette théorie fut d'ailleurs dû pour une bonne part à des raisons qui n'ont rien de « scientifique », mais qui tiennent directement à son caractère antitraditionnel ; pour les mêmes raisons, il est à prévoir que, alors même qu'aucun biologiste sérieux n'y croira plus, elle subsistera longtemps encore dans les manuels scolaires et les ouvrages de vulgarisation.

rien n'est moins tolérant en pratique que les gens qui éprouvent le besoin de prêcher la tolérance et la fraternité.

Sometimes all that's left is faith

The Universe cares more about your empowerment and freedom from fear than it does just about anything. It's really true.

Last night at dinner, a man said that, on principle, he never answers his telephone. Somebody asked him how he reached people. "I call them," he said. "But suppose they don't believe in answering, either?" I thought of phones ringing all over New York, no one answering.

Everyone needs faith: faith that even though the world is full of evil, a suitor will come and kiss us awake; faith that the girl will escape the tower, the big bad wolf will die, and even those poisoned by malevolence can be reborn, as innocent as purity itself.

What if we are all capable of lying to ourselves? But the story didn't bother Naomi. Instead it reassured her confirming that the stories we tell ourselves have more meaning than the facts. That doesn't make them lies. Seeded with every myth was the emotional truth.

People had a drive to immortalize their past, even the evil stuff, like Abu Ghraib or the Holocaust. They liked to take pictures, keep journals, because they believed in what they were doing. No one, Naomi had learned, did evil without believing it was right at the time. Maybe this was why it was nearly impossible to talk them out of it?

Are the stories we tell ourselves true or based on what we dream them to be?

This got me thinking - if there are things inside us too tiny to see, might there be things outside us too big to believe?

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Yes, I pray and go to church and read my Bible. But sometimes I shake my fist at God. It's not the picture of peace I realize, and I certainly make no claims of wearing the armor of God. I'm lucky if I can get the underwear of decency on, all right?

remember that God uses conflict to stretch and mold us, and oftentimes he won't deliver us out of the fire. Instead, he wants us to walk through it. You can pray all you want, but sometimes, conflict is just going to happen.

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. —JEAN KERR

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.

Every time, every woman, every circumstance; the answer is Him.

Cherokee stories have been passed down through many generations. Storytelling is an art form. Storytellers are actors, singers, dancers, and mimes who tell stories about the Cherokee people and animals. Animals are important in Cherokee stories. Many stories tell of people who could speak with the animals. Some stories tell how the Cherokee could once communicate with animals. According to this belief, the Cherokee lost this ability because their ancestors were greedy and talked too much.