Quotes About Belief

Las personas pueden rechazar nuestro amor y nuestro mensaje, pero no pueden hacer nada contra nuestras oraciones.

It's the side of reason that I'm on," Teddy said. "It just so happens that that's where you're always to be found and my mother rarely.

The dead were legion and the gods had their own secret agenda.

Sylvia was nuts, of course. She'd told Amelia that God (not to mention Joan of Arc) had spoken to her. In the unlikely event of God speaking to anyone, Sylvia did not seem the obvious choice.

It wasn't that Theo believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.

She prayed now, with desperate conviction but no faith, and she suspected it made no difference either way. When

You did not need a God (Sylvie was an unconfessed atheist) to believe in sin.

Of course, I don't believe in God,' Dr Kellet said. 'But I believe in heaven. One has to

of course, i don´t believe in god; Dr Kellet said. but i believe in heaven. one has to.

Who wrote that? Kitty had

Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was—wasn't everything in her head real too? What if there was no demonstrable reality? What if there was nothing beyond the mind? Philosophers "came to grips" with this problem a long time ago, Dr.

although, of course, you couldn't be sure—it might be that cloistered women praying night and day was the only thing that was preventing some cataclysmal disaster—a meteor or global nuclear meltdown.

Gloria didn't believe in heaven, although she did occasionally worry that it was a place that existed only if you did believe in it. She wondered if people would be so keen on the idea of the next life if it was, say, underground. Or full of people like Pam. And relentlessly, tediously boring, like an everlasting Baptist service but without the occasional excitement of a full immersion.

If she imagined God at all, it was as a vague entity that hung around behind her left shoulder, rather like a nagging parrot.

Had anyone ever entertained the possibility that Sylvia was schizophrenic? If God spoke to Amelia she would presume she had gone insane.

There was no point in preserving the earth, Ms. MacDonald explained in a kindly tone, because the Last Judgment couldn't occur until every last thing on the planet had been destroyed, every tree, every flower, every river. Every last eagle and owl and panda, the sheep in the fields, the leaves on the trees, the rising of the sun, and the running of the deer. Everything. And Ms. MacDonald was looking forward to that.

Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing." Diana-worship was the nearest thing Mum had to a religion.

who is to say which of these is real and which a fiction? In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. JOHN 8:32

Angus had a pretty normal childhood. Bertie had immediately mistrusted him. Nobody had a normal childhood.

When God says no to your harmless desires, it's time to get another God.

there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.

Religion, loyalty, everything would give way if only you cared.

There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.