Quotes About Belief

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

The presence of God is the finest of rewards.

I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

Creo en la poesía, en el amor y en la muerte, por eso precisamente creo en la inmortalidad.

Chaque homme est son propre dieu. C'est en choisissant un autre qu'il se renie et devient aveugle et injuste.

In the eyes of Popes and Imams we are Us and Them, but in the eyes of the Lord we are one.

Le courage, monsieur Krausmann, le courage tout court, c'est de croire en soi.

Personne ne croit au miracle des pluies, aux féeries du printemps, encore moins aux aurores d'un lendemain clément. Les hommes sont devenus fous ; ils ont tourné le dos au jour pour faire face à la nuit. Les saints patrons ont été destitués. Les prophètes sont morts et leurs fantômes crucifiés sur le front des enfants...

Amin, you're not making sense to me. Things have always been this way, since the beginning of time. Some die so others can be saved. You don't believe in the salvation of others?

Tous les matins, de plus en plus de gens viennent convoquer les divinités qu'ils ont eux-mêmes créées de toutes pièces entre une hallucination opiacée et une démence suicidaire.

In Jerusalem, people are very cautious in the morning, out of superstition: The first words and deeds at dawn, it's said, usually shape the rest of the day.

The Jew is born as free as the wind, as indomitable as the Judean desert. Why did he mark the boundaries of his homeland so carelessly that it was nearly taken from him? Because for a long time he believed that the Promised Land is, first and foremost, the land where there's no wall to keep him from seeing farther than his cries can carry.

Poverty, I decided, had nothing to do with fate; it was simply a state of mind. We accept the world as we see it; we believe it to be immutable. But if we look away from the misery even for a moment, another path appears, bright as a new penny, and so mysterious that we begin to dream...

Isabelle had the patience of those who believe that tomorrow belongs to them.

I'll never understand why the survivors of a tragedy feel compelled to make people believe they're more to be pitied than the ones who didn't make it.

les hommes n'ont inventé dieu que pour distraire leur démons

qui reve trop oublie de vivre" dieu n'habite pas la havane. p 9

Tu ferais quoi, Ach, si tu étais le bon Dieu? - J'suis pas le bon Dieu. - D'accord, mais admettons. Tu ferais quoi? - Que veux-tu que je fasse? - C'est pour ça que je te le demande. (...) - M'est avis qu'il a claqué la porte il y a des lustres. - C'est à dire? - Ben, il veut plus entendre parler de nos foutaises. (...) Forcément, il jette l'éponge.