Robert Ley Quotes

Without faith, life is futile.

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.

When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

Without hope we are lost.

I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Life without hope is no life.

One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment. Not that you've got to believe that Jesus was real, or not to believe in God, but the belief that it isn't just happenstance.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

It's easy to get depressed and think, "Well, what's the point?" But it's the same as, "Well, we're all going to die, so what's the point in brushing my teeth or even saying hello to anyone or obeying traffic lights." You can do that, but that's certainly not going to take you anywhere.

Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.

For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.