Quotes About Faith

He gave the impression that he believed in things. We did too—it was just that we wanted to believe in our own things, rather than what had been decided for us. Hence what we thought of as our cleansing scepticism.

Martha was a clever girl, and therefore not a believer.

wear flannel next to your skin, and never believe in eternal punishment.

The way, the truth and the life. You go on your way through life telling the truth.

If I call myself an atheist at twenty, and an agnostic at fifty and sixty, it isn't because I have acquired more knowledge in the meantime: just more awareness of ignorance.

atheism, which is mere emptiness and too depressing for words, and leads to socialism.

Perhaps grief, which destroys all patterns, destroys even more,: the belief that any pattern exists

Belki de her türlü ortak motifi ortadan kald?ran keder daha da fazlas?n? ortadan kald?r?yor: ortak motiflerin var olduÄŸuna olan inanc?.

Miss Fergusson had maintained, when they first stood before the haloed mountain, that there were two explanations of everything, that each required the exercise of faith, and that we had been given free will in order that we might choose between them. This dilemma was to preoccupy Miss Logan for years to come. 7

There was something a bit sinister about Noah's devotion to God; creepy, if you know what I mean.

she wonders whether the Holy Ghost, conventionally represented as a dove, would not be better portrayed as a parrot. Logic is certainly on her side: parrots and Holy Ghosts can speak, whereas doves cannot.

One secret of the Christian religion's success was always to employ the best moviemakers

When we killed - or exiled - God we also killed ourselves. Did we notice sufficiently at the time? No God, no afterlife, no us. We were right to kill Him, of course, this long-standing imaginary friend of ours. And we weren't going to get an afterlife anyway. But we sawed off the branch we were sitting on. And the view from there, from that height - even if it was only the illusion of a view - wasn't so bad.

it is better to be gullible than suspicious.

She had that absolute faith in the judgement of her own kind, seldom seen since 1914. No doubt it was common enough before then, which must have made Edwardian society such a philosophically relaxing place to be. If one were an aristocrat.

All the world knows it is better to be gullible than suspicious.

As the stag pants after the waterbrooks, So pants my mind after you, O gods! My mind thirsts for gods! for living gods! When shall I come face to face with gods? —Psalm 42

Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

I always doubt people... I've survived by not believing in other human beings.

She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again. She clenches her fists and thinks, Will he find me again? And she tells herself, No. Don't want this. Let him go.

The box we stored God i kept getting smaller...until only a speck of god still exists, maybe only an atom. Maybe an atom is all we need.

Maybe Helmund is an angel after all. Maybe that's who he's been all along.

What uif God and the truth are the same thing? What if the truth is at the center of everything? If you believe in that, you believe that the truth will win out in the end. It will reveal itself...