Quotes About Faith

Chi è deluso da Dio è deluso dagli uomini. Chi reclama un Dio onnipotente sogna uomini senza libertà.

Che gli uomini ci credano o meno, sfuggono a Dio perché rimangono liberi. Sta a loro mettere a frutto quella libertà, che esisterà solo se la utilizzano. Che il cielo sia pieno o vuoto, non c'è dubbio che tocchi agli uomini farsi carico degli uomini. Anzi, farsi carico di Dio. Soltanto loro possono travestirlo o comprenderlo, ascoltarlo o rimanere sordi, leggerlo bene o leggerlo male, esercitare il proprio spirito critico.

J'ai la foi. Mais ce n'est pas une certitude. C'est juste un espoir.

Solo gli stupidi vivono di certezze

Pourtant Dieu existe, Don Juan, Dieu existe. Car ce que j'ai senti pour vous, c'est cela, Dieu.

Od prawdy zawsze wola?am niepewno??.

Êtes-vous polythéiste, monsieur ? — Pardon ? — Moi je suis monothéiste. Je n'aime qu'un compositeur : Chopin. Je possède la conviction de n'avoir été envoyée sur terre que pour jouer et écouter Chopin.

À l'envers des nuages, il y a toujours un ciel.

Le persone temono di morire perché hanno paura dell'ignoto. Ma per l'appunto, che cos'è l'ignoto? Ti propongo, Oscar, di non aver paura, ma fiducia. Guarda il viso di Dio sulla croce: subisce il dolore fisico, ma non prova dolore morale perché ha fiducia. Perciò i chiodi lo fanno soffrire meno. Si ripete: mi fa male ma non può essere un male. Ecco. È questo il beneficio della fede.

Wiecie, co czasami myÅ›lÄ™, jaÅ›nie panie? Å»e Bóg mnie nie kocha. (...) - To niemo?liwe. Bóg kocha wszystkie swoje stworzenia. Jego miÅ'o?? dociera do wszystkiego, co stworzyÅ'. - Wobec tego myÅ›laÅ' o czymÅ› innym, gdy mnie stworzyÅ'. MusiaÅ' by? roztargniony. Chwila nieuwagi i sos siÄ™ przypaliÅ'.

Mój ojciec niewÄ…tpliwie cierpiaÅ' z powodu swojego ateizmu, tym bardziej ?e uwielbiana przez niego matka byÅ'a wierzÄ…ca i pewnie marzyÅ', ?eb podziela? jej wiarÄ™... Bez wÄ…tpienia chciaÅ' równie? zachowa? siÄ™ jak hojny ojciec i oznajmi? swojemu dziecku, ?e Bóg istnieje... ByÅ'aby to dobra nowina... ?aska, której nie umiaÅ' przekaza?...

Do pogardy dla wierzÄ…cego dochodzi pogarda dla dzikusa. (...) Oto co myÅ›lÄ… te nasze trze?we umysÅ'y! Po co oÅ›wieca? tubylca? Po co pozbawia? go korzeni, oferujÄ…c mu ateizm? Có? by na tym zyskaÅ' w tym wrogim Å›rodowisku? W rzeczywistoÅ›ci uwa?ajÄ…, ?e to normalne, gdy modli siÄ™ Afrykanin, lecz irytujÄ…ce, gdy robi to Europejczyk, poniewa? ich zdaniem Europejczyk jest lepszy od Afrykanina.

Dostarczenie dowodu nale?y do tego, kto wysuwa twierdzenie. JeÅ›li utrzymujÄ™, ?e centaury istniejÄ…, muszÄ™ poprze? swojÄ… tezÄ™. - KtoÅ›, kto nie chce wierzy?, zawsze wynajduje powody. - KtoÅ›, kto chce wierzy?, równie?!

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life.

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

Today the lack of faith is an expression of profound confusion and despair. Once skepticism and rationalism were progressive forces for the development of thought; now they have become rationalizations for relativism and uncertainty.

Love is an act of faith.

To some people return to religion is the answer, not as an act of faith but in order to escape an intolerable doubt; they make this decision not out of devotion but in search of security.

We have faith in the potentialities of other, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and of love.

The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is known.

Man can attempt to become one with the world by submission to a person, to a group, to an institution, to God. In this way, he transcends the separateness of his individual existence by becoming part of somebody or something bigger than himself, and experiences his identity in connection with the power to which he has submitted.

Faith, in the having mode, is a crutch for those who want to be certain, those who want an answer to life without daring to search for it themselves.

Dig in the pope's pocket for the bullet, the brown glass vial with the magic top. Snort. Taste chemicals running down the back of your throat. Snort again.