Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

I try to act out of faith.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.