Quotes about Belief
We believe we are free, and that God will forgive us. Personally I think otherwise. Finally, transformed into tiny quivering photons, each of our deeds will set off into Outer Space, where the planets will keep watching it like a film until the end of the world.
— Olga Tokarczuk
The Messiah has to fall as low as possible, otherwise he isn't the Messiah.
— Olga Tokarczuk
It's a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything. Like an impotent man who can't experience pleasure himself, but will do all he can to ruin it for others.
— Olga Tokarczuk
There are many roads to God, it isn't ours to judge.' 'Of course it's ours. There are roads, and there's the wilderness.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Dizzy," I said, "it's Animals taking revenge on people." Dizzy always believes me, but this time he wasn't listening.
— Olga Tokarczuk
I pass billboards that announce in black and white, in English, 'Jesus loves even you'. I feel uplifted by the unexpected encouragement; I'm only slightly alarmed by the 'even'. (page 336)
— Olga Tokarczuk
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.