Quotes About Belief

I am sure of the here and now, this moment, and the next. I am sure of my past." That was ghost bird's castle keep, and it was inviolate.

The linguist still believed in the superstition of logic

Above all, don't think, for what you think happens!

And one day, out of Heaven knows what material, he spun the beast a wonderful name, and from that moment it grew into a god and a religion. The Woman indulged in religion once a week at a church near by, and took Conradin with her, but to him the church service was an alien rite in the House of Rimmon. Every Thursday, in the dim and musty silence of the tool-shed, he worshipped with mystic and elaborate ceremonial before the wooden hutch where dwelt Sredni Vashtar, the great ferret.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Es más difícil romper un prejuicio que un átomo.

to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.

Entraron al Portal de los Varilleros pidiéndole a Dios que las convirtiera en moscas, pero a esa hora las moscas se habían ido a dormir y Dios había olvidado su forma y su tamaño. Y el milagro no les fue concedido

En esos días aún creíamos en la noche sobresaltada de cantos y en el despertar gozoso del regreso.

Supersticiosa, tocaba los objetos para comunicarse con el mundo aparente y cogía un libro o un salero como punto de apoyo para no caer en el vacío. Así establecía un fluido mágico entre la Isabel real y la Isabel irreal y se sentía consolada.

La promesa de la inmortalidad basta para poner en pie una religión.

Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days.

Tutti i pregiudizi sono determinati da altri pregiudizi, e i più frequenti sono quelli che nascono dai loro opposti.

Do?i ?e vreme kad ?e ljudi svoja ?ula prekovati u se?anje, a sve vreme u prošlost. Do?i ?e vreme kad ?e jedna jedina prošlost obuhvatiti sve ljude, kad ne?e biti ništa osim te prošlosti, kad ?e svako verovati: u prošlost.

Some stories are true that never happened.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it…

Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

God is God because he remembers.

I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!

I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death.

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.