Quotes About Belief

We believe no evil till the evil's done.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

Fiecare no?iune, fiecare familie, fiecare individ are o mitologie care d? culoare existen?ei sale.

Toate regimurile li se par bune, în afara celor care au c?zut. ?i le plac revolu?iile când ei sunt cei care le fac.

Ce-ar fi putut face, ?i unul ?i cel?lalt, cu libertatea de gândire? ?i cu toleran?a? Fiindc?, ?i unul ?i cel?lalt, se considerau de?in?tori ai adev?rului.

Nu vorbea decât de dragoste, agitând bombe. Aprindea ruguri, dar nu voia s? vad? decât lumina lor.

Cred - este o credin?? ca oricare alta ?i, fiindc? fericirea ?i nefericirea nu pot fi niciodat? comparate, nu pot aduce dovezi - c? binele este aliatul timpului ?i c?, treptat, pe nesim?ite cu fluctua?ii poate, cu frân?ri bru?te, ?i cu reveniri, el birue r?ul.

nici unul din noi nu este nimic altceva decât ceea ce lumea din jurul lui a hot?rât c? este.

universul nostru era dominat de o idee, ?i poate numai de una, dar ea ne f?cea s? ne sim?im foarte siguri pe noi. For?a acestei idei venea în totalitate din simplitatea ei. ?i anume c? lucrurile sunt ceea ce sunt.

I cannot do this," she remembered thinking to herself, but she went anyway. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do," she wrote later, supplying her own emphasis.

It would seem logical to pray to the devil, but no thief would dare do so seriously. To come to terms with him would be to commit oneself too deeply. He is too opposed to God, who, we know, is the final victor. A murderer himself would not dare pray to the devil.

Personally, I believe the Koran is more trustworthy than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, he said" - Jean Genet, Jean Genet in Tangier

Personally, I believe the Koran is more trustworthy than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, he said

All i know is that the world exists. But only god himself knows whether He exists.

Il s'appelait le Louis. Crevé, fin crevé. La gerbe tremblait au bout de sa fourche, et toujours à s'en prendre au bon dieu. Comme si c'était lui, le responsable ! Au fond, c'était peut-être la première fois qu'il travaillait.

En 1915 je suis parti sans croire à la patrie. J'ai eu tort. Non pas de ne pas croire : de partir.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

But there was one thing he actually did believe in that bordered on the magical, or at least the beyond-pedestrian, and that was the duty a writer owed to a story.

Or we of the tribe who delude ourselves into thinking the Orioles will one day win the World Series!

The truth is not believable to someone who has not lived it in his muscles.

Humanism, he continued, leaning toward his colleagues with the zeal of his conviction even as he stumbled over his words, that holds as its core value the belief that human beings can learn and grow and change, and that art—and literature—can fuel that evolution. But

I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in another and truly believed that anything was possible.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.