Quotes About Belief

Why did men think that saying something louder made it true?

Do you no longer believe in your luck?' 'You're not my luck, fallen angel, or even my dearest friend. You're my love. My true love.

I don't know what God intends, or what qualifies Him to forgive me,' Sobran said

The Great God of the Deserts, the God from the Void, sequestered himself many hundreds of years ago. His worshippers had too many competing views of his nature, and it unsettled his mind. That's a thing that can happen to gods. They're very impressionable.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

That is the beauty of the solid Marxist education you did not have the privilege of receiving. Believe me, you can find labor issues in any topic if you look hard enough.

Didn't Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn't it expert in superstition?

If I accepted one supernatural occurrence, I should certainly accept others; it was only logical.

Der Glaube ist das, was fuer uns real ist.

But sometimes a man who is very good thinks, I am very bad, and it—destructs his life, everything. Because he does not believe that he has any right to do something, so he does less and less.

We couldn't be sure of anything except the power of love…and we are under no requirement to believe in a particular source of that love as long as we could keep giving and receiving some in our own lives.

Zealous conviction is a dangerous substitute for an open mind.

Politics isn't about reality, it's about what you can make people believe is real.

Elizabeth Lowell

As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the most basic proof of His existence is black humor. What else explains it, that odd, reliable comfort that billows up at the worst moments, like a beautiful sunset woven out of the smoke over a bombed city.

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

No creo que Dios haga que pasen cosas malas sólo para que la gente pueda crecer espiritualmente.

No creo que yo sea autista porque Dios pensara que mis padres necesitaban un desafío o que yo necesitara un desafío. Creo que es como si yo fuera un bebé y me cayera una piedra encima y me rompiera la pierna. La causa habrá sido un accidente. Dios no ha impedido el accidente, pero tampoco lo ha provocado.

Should I tell you the truth I know, or try to guess the untruth you want?

The man who had spread those rumors first had been a sociopath, a clever criminal—why, now that everyone knew about him, did they still believe his lies?

What someone believes another person thinks is often wrong. That's why the law—our system of law—relies on the closest thing we can get to a fact: observed behavior, acts, and words.

Those who follow evil gods become evil themselves

You are what you are, and the gods may have plans for you now that you were not able to fulfill then.