Quotes About Belief

Não sabia explicar o motivo por que, com tanta frequência, Deus levava as melhores pessoas e deixava as más vivas para continuarem a praticar o mal. Em momentos como aquele, a ideia de uma divindade benevolente encarregada de zelar pelo bem de todos perdia qualquer espécie de credibilidade.

He would never get on anywhere except in an organization where fanaticism was more important than ability.

S?-?i schimbi credin?a la fiecare schimbare a monarhului se numea "politic?", iar oamenii care f?ceau a?a ceva se numeau "politicieni".

passages proved the correctness of Protestant teaching.

lot of them say it couldn't happen here, but they're wrong.

Dios no haría un cuchillo con papel.

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...

His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen... ...if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

I was actually going out of the hospital with two whores on a fishing boat; I had to keep saying it over and over to myself to believe it.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

It's the truth. Even if it didn't happen.

To know a thing you have to trust what you know, and all that you know, and as far as you know in whatever direction your knowing drags you.

Besides, there are some things that can't be the truth even if they did happen.

To know a thing you have to trust what you know, and all that you know, and as far as you know in whatever direction your knowing drags you. I once had a pet pine squirrel named Omar who lived in the cotton secret

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

Nobody's gonna convince me I can't do something till I try it. -- McMurphy

If they don't exist, how can a man see them?

It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen

Besides there are somethings that can't be the truth even if they did happen.

One of the reasons for his drinking, Henry said, was Jon's momma used to make the whole family get down on their knees and pray like fury every time Jon's daddy would come home boozed. Jon never quite got it straight that they weren't thanking the good Lord for his blessing, same as they did at the supper table. So according to Henry, booze come to be something holy to him and with faith like that Jon grew up religious as a deacon.

Well, Watson. Yes, Holmes? I believe the wheel has turned yet again–and now it's back to work!

There is a phrase for this that has become quite common: "I'm spiritual but not religious." Polls show that some 20 percent of Americans identify overall with that phrase. And some polls have shown that, in the younger generation—those between eighteen and twenty-nine—this percentage explodes to an astonishing 75 percent!2 In other words, three out of four young individuals have a deep spiritual yearning that no existing religion is addressing.