Quotes About Belief

The impossible is just the possible you haven't met yet.

who says wicked can't be good?

But if you read Christie or Allingham or Sayers, the detective always got his man. And you'll notice that the detective always operated outside the system—the stories expressed a comforting belief in the validity of individual action.

His father, who had rebelled early against his Scots Presbyterian upbringing and declared himself an "intellectual agnostic"—or had it been "agnostic intellectual"?—had protested, but his mother insisted that the human animal had a need for structure, for ritual and discipline, for the ties with the community that the church provided, and for a sense of something larger than itself.

the declaration by Paul that Christianity is the one true faith and therefore supersedes or replaces Judaism, both in belief and in deed—became an essential tenet of the new faith.

fought to defend myself, to preserve my belief in freedom of expression, and to defeat a man who lied about history and expressed deeply contemptuous views of Jews and other minorities.

cannot be disproved. Therefore, in every generation they must be fought.

To try to defeat an irrational supposition—especially when it is firmly held by its proponents—with a rational explanation is virtually impossible.

It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles

In Finnish mythology it was known as a sielulintu: a mythical bird that guards the soul. Everyone had one, whether they were aware of it or not.

To make things change, you need a strong heart.

He'd died. Plain and simple. And it pissed him off. Left him frustrated and disappointed. Where had all , the guardian angel crap they'd fed him in catechism gone to? He'd seen no angels, seraphim, archangels or pearly gates. No one to show him the ropes now that he was dead. What the hell was he supposed to do?

Life ia only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll al get home safely.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely.

If you only behave because an invisible man in the sky is watching, then you don't own your own moral structure. Your moral framework is based outside yourself, separate from your reasoning.

Your faith is like putty. How easily you mold it to your own desires.

We use God to justify our actions when in fact it is our own instinct for survival that pushes us on.

My point, Clara Gill, is that it's wise to choose your allegiance in this world, take a side or a story or a creed, but you might be wrong. You might be dazzled."~Will Cross

And what's the difference, after all, between real and unreal when people react precisely the same way to either?

Precisamos fazer as coisas que achamos que não conseguimos.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. -Francois de La Rochfoucauld

Every time a hillbilly hears his cell phone ring, an angel gets a beer.

And since "God shows personal favoritism to no man" (Galatians 2:6), nothing and no one can block my destiny.

The LORD Almighty has spoken—who can change his plans? When his hand moves, who can stop him? (ISAIAH 14:27 NLT).