Quotes About Belief

You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.

Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.

If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is everything that I do, I do for the Glory of Lord. Because of my Christian faith, that's who I am. I wasn't always that way, but I'm very proud that I am.

I like the imp / in impossibility

Il n'y a pas de Dieu, il n'y a pas de morale, rien n'existe de tout ce qu'on nous a enseigné à respecter; il y a une vie qui passe, à laquelle il est logique de demander le plus de jouissance possible, en attendant l'épouvante finale qui est la mort.

Under pressure, even the smartest people will start to rationalize that frogs really can turn into princes.

Equality has become a sort of remote deity, which is routinely worshipped but has ceased to inspire any living faith.

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately must we believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

Sire,] je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse." En répondant Napoléon qui lui demanda pourquoi sa théorie de l'univers ne indique pas Dieux.

Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk? Then, leave me to my foolishness.

Oh, God," he prayed once again, by all means test us to the limit of our endurance, but please make it humanly possible to go on. Please let there be some sort of path".

I prayed to God from the bottom of my heart that this day would never come, but it has and we have to face it with courage and faith.

Niekas taip neskatina žmogaus veikti, kaip troškimas nustebinti tuos, kurie juo abejoja.

A bit beyond perception's reach I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the other's key.

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

En blomst ved min elskedes seng har jeg sat, // en rose, der rødmende stod der i nat. // Først faldt der er et blad og så to os og fler, // nu tror den vist ikke på knopskydning mer.

I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.

It is not possible with mortal mind to search out the purposes of the gods.

Hope, which most of all guides the changeful mind of mortals.

The issue is in God's hands.

L'arte, che col suo pregio dona ogni dolcezza ai mortali, spesso fece sì che anche l'incredibile diventasse credibile.