Quotes About Belief

All beyond this is portentous and fabulous, inhabited by poets and mythologers, and there is nothing true or certain.

Numa forbade the Romans to revere an image of God which had the form of man or beast. Nor was there among them in this earlier time any painted or graven likeness of Deity, 8 but while for the first hundred and seventy years they were continually building temples and establishing sacred shrines, they made no statues in bodily form for them, convinced that it was impious to liken higher things to lower, and that it was impossible to apprehend Deity except by the intellect.

A Spartan, seeing a man taking up a collection for the gods, said that he did not think much of gods who were poorer than himself.

Psychics are like porno stars," I said. "Anybody can be one.

La suerte..., eso que muchos creen que es la base del triunfo y de la dicha, y no es nada más que la excusa para negarse, muchas veces, el triunfo y la dicha.

God pays, but not weekly wages.

The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

More worship the rising than the setting sun.

From this perspective, we can say that genuine faith is simply confidence and trust in ourselves, in our own intelligence and understanding, which then extends to the path we're traveling.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

Unlimited trust should only be placed in the real Word of the Revelation that we encounter in the faith transmitted by the Church.

I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.

Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

Ciò che mi colpisce, quando considero il mondo cattolico, è che all'interno del cattolicesimo sembra talvolta predominare un pensiero di tipo non cattolico, e può avvenire che questo pensiero non cattolico all'interno del cattolicesimo diventi domani il più forte. Ma esso non rappresenterà mai il pensiero della Chiesa. Bisogna che sussista un piccolo gregge, per quanto piccolo esso sia.

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.

It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.

When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.

The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.