A few good words

[cyrano]

I'm charged with constructing a bio for "Incorruptible" and I want to round it out with a good quote about Faith or Belief. Since it's Friday, today's IFIAYAQD question is: what's your favorite quote on the topic?

Comments

probably not what you're looking for

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Two, from Umberto Eco in Foucault's Pendulum

Someone--Rubinstein, maybe--once said, when asked if he believed in God: "Oh, no, I believe...in something much bigger." And someone else-- was it Chesterton?--said that when men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing; they believe in everything. But everything is not a bigger secret.

Why love Fate if Fate kills you just as dead as Providence or the Plot of the Archons?

Re: probably not what you're looking for

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I think that's an excellent start. (: Thank you.

tangential quotes

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

"Pray as if everything depends on God. Then work as if everything depends on you." -- unknown

"I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with the sense, reason, and intellect, had intended for us to forgo their use." -- Galileo Galilei

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. There is genius, power and magic in boldness." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'" -- Kahlil Gibran

"If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others." -- Anonymous

Re: tangential quotes

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

This is nice too.

Re: tangential quotes

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Though now I want to find a cite for that last one.

*surfaces from a brief Google*

It's Anthony Burgess.

[yukonsally]

It's not a simple quote, but I do like Pascal's Wager.