Quotes About Belief

I believe we are free, within limits, and yet there is an unseen hand, a guiding angel, that somehow, like a submerged propeller, drives us on.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Alas for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their own sway. The surest proofs meanwhile are disbelieved. False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him

I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man

Brahmos accept a formless deity who is invisible to the eye. You accept idols who cannot be heard. We acccept the living who can be seen and heard-- it's impossible not to believe in them.

But the child's faith never admits defeat, and it would snatch at the mantle of death itself to turn him back.

To the Goddess? Then I cannot blame him. For a man loses his humanity when it concerns his gods.

An idea that sounds definite when aired as an opinion may not always appear so certain when applied to human beings.

YOUR idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Why so impatient, my heart? He who watches over birds, beasts, and insects, He who cared for you whilst you were yet in your mother's womb, Shall He not care for you now that you are come forth? Oh my heart, how could you turn from the smile of your Lord and wander so far from Him? You have left Your Beloved and are thinking of others: and this is why all your work is in vain.

When doctors give up, patients don't always die.

Le illusioni sono necessarie per le menti semplici, e la maggioranza delle persone è semplice. Ecco perché ovunque nel mondo abbiamo creato delle divinità. Gli uomini sono fin troppo consapevoli delle loro debolezze.

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

Don't look behind you. You have to trust in the Lord and hear what He's trying to tell you. What He's trying to teach you.

I think believing in something is what matters most. Believe in nature or believe in love or believe that by doing the right thing you can make some difference to another human being or an entire generation.

You create what you speak. So, speak a better world. Speak a happier and more loving life. Speak your despair and let it lead you back to your truth.

I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just to take a nice silly walk in Central Park with. Somebody who wouldn't judge another for the prepositions they dangle, or their run-on sentences, and who in turn wouldn't be judged for the snobbery of their language etymology inclinations.

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

The sad fact...is that in this era of science and unbelief we have lost the sense of our own significance. We have become cruel, to ourselves and others, because we believe that ultimately we have no value.