Faith Quote by Joseph Conrad

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had gone mad. I had - for my sins, I suppose - to…

— Joseph Conrad

“His carefully calculated sincerity is almost entirely indistinguishable from the real thing.”

— Richard Russo

“What would a person say to himself in the madness of sincerity? But it would be salvation. Thought the terror of sincerity comes from…

— Clarice Lispector

“I craved to make my faith as real as possible, which meant being recklessly honest in His presence.”

— Natalie Brenner

“but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend…

— Jane Austen

“He had the feeling that humanity was running in place. So many centuries and they had not learned anything new.”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful…

— Nicholas Sparks

“…just as determined belief yields no ground to the most irresistible powers and strategies, so too determined unbelief.”

— Harry Lang

“He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish…

— Gregory Maguire

“Believing passionately in the palpably not true... is the chief occupation of mankind.”

— H.L. Mencken

“It was what he wanted to believe with all his heart.”

— Kristin Kladstrup

“he was a sincere man who believed in everything he said, even if it was a lie, which makes him not so different from…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen