Quotes About Belief

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt love

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

There are no facts anymore, kiddo. only good or bad fiction.

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.

i'm not always optimistic but i am always hopeful.

The afterlife I leave to God, who is merciful and far too busy for impertinent questions from me. I may want to know more, but I don't need to. "One world at a time"-that's my feeling and that's more than enough given the present anguish that engulfs it.

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.

The Way It Is There's a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn't change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can't get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time's unfolding. You don't ever let go of the thread. ~ William Stafford ~

Mary McCarthy that "The happy ending is our national belief

Two centuries later, the Enlightenment transmuted Christian linearism into a complementary secular faith, what historian Carl Becker called "the heavenly city of the eighteenth-century philosophers"—the belief in indefinite scientific, economic, and political improvement.

It points, for instance, to the fact that there is never an abstract, single 'Christian answer' to an issue to which all Christians are bound to adhere or conform.

There was a general belief that a long and unpleasant holiday was of crucial importance to one's development as a human being.

The way you buy has a lot to do with the way you worship and who you worship and what you worship.

There are no athiests in foxholes.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

It is a great mistake to think that God is chiefly concerned with our being religious.