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Quotes About Faith

Sinner, his mouth said, doomed sinner and no more my rival.
~ Nicola Griffith
Hope was something to be feared.
~ Nicola Griffith
She was baptised to Christ-their name for the pattern, her path, her wyrd. She was still herself.
~ Nicola Griffith
How would she be the light of the world feeling like this?
~ Nicola Griffith
The priests had had a network before Paulinus unraveled it. Hild would reweave it, to her own purpose.
~ Nicola Griffith
She stood alone at the empty heart of a gone god, staff in the crook of her arm, one hand on her seax and the other on her cross. She would not wear and weather. She was Yffing. She would be totem and token for her people, the light of the world.
~ Nicola Griffith
She knows when to let go. You should, too.
~ Nicola Griffith
Christ wasn't their god, some muttered, not yet. But most didn't care. They were happy to eat.
~ Nicola Griffith
Who would have me? The Crow took everything. For his church, he said." He looked about the rough empty space. "The king smiled and watched.
~ Nicola Griffith
Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Modern history is the dialogue between two men: one who believes in God, another who believes he is a god.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish. The fool is cured by "reason," "progress," alcohol, work.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Wir sollten uns nur den Dingen widmen, die bei einem Zusammenbruch unversehrt bleiben würden.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
In history it is wise to hope for miracles and absurd to trust in plans. Intelligent optimism is never faith in progress, but hope in a miracle.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Die Christen Nietzsches sind nicht die von gestern, sondern die von heute. Kein exakter Historiker, aber vielleicht ein Prophet.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Intelligent optimism is never faith in progress, but hope in a miracle. How can anyone live who does not hope for miracles?
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Dehellenizing Christianity turns it into a sect.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
El máximo error moderno no es anunciar que Dios murió, sino creer que el diablo ha muerto.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Each one of a science's successive orthodoxies appears to be the definitive truth to the disciple.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
No pertenezco a un mundo que perece. Prolongo y transmito una verdad que no muere.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Religion is the only serious thing, but one need not take seriously every declaration of homo religiosus.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila