Guillermo del Toro Quotes

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge of Nature through observations, experimentation and reasoning, and the man of sentiment, the man of belief, the man who mourns his dead children, and who cannot, alas, prove that he will see them again, but who believes that he will, and lives in the hope – the man who will not die like a vibrio, but who feels that the force that is within him cannot die.

I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

I think God is something that people use to avoid reality. I think faith allows people to reject what is right in front of our eyes, which is that thing, this life, this existence, this consciousness, or whatever word you want to use for it, is all we have, and all we'll ever have. I think people have faith because they want and need to believe in something, whatever that something is, because life can be hard and depressing and brutal if you don't.

I came to believe in a power much higher than I

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam": "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed

To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament.

Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality is soulfulness.

I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.

People who believe in science have a hard time believing in ghosts and the supernatural.

I have friends who are scientists, strict materialists, who don't think science and religion are compatible, but I just think most of us - unless you're a strict atheist materialist, which there aren't many of - most of us believe in something outside the material world. And if you do believe that, I don't know how you're not obsessed with it.

I think there is more to this world than we can possibly fathom. There's got to be.

I started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without anthropomorphizing it.