Guillermo del Toro Quotes

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

I do not believe in Belief.

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logically the existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.

Who couldn't believe there's a God?

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

I wouldn't call myself an atheist. I neither deny nor accept that there is a God... So I do not laugh at people who believe in God. But I do not necessarily believe in God - nor deny that there could be one.

I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in an afterlife or not, whether I believe in God or not, I can only answer you that all things are possible. And if all things are possible, heaven and hell and the angels are also possible. They're not to be ruled out.

We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

I believe in possibility, but I'm not sure I believe in demons.

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.