Quotes About Belief

Sometimes these things happen. God knows what He's doing and we just have to trust His plan.

My worth had nothing to do with a job or a paycheck. My worth, everyone's worth, is based on God-given value.

His lips began moving with the lyrics. Every long-lost dream . . . He was singing them to her, and she wanted to believe he meant them. Believe he felt the way the song's writer had, that the other women had only been a sign pointing him back to her.

Hadn't he told her she needed to trust God? They were supposed to do the right thing and trust God to handle the rest.

When I can't trust others and I can't trust myself, I can always trust God.

It's not the how, Maddy, It's the Who.

Our doubts are traitors," she penned for the editorial page of her new endeavor. "And make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

And we, frightened, bored, wanting only to sleep till catastrophe has raged, clashed, seethed and gone by without us, wanting then to awaken in quietude without remembrance of agony, we who in shamefaced private hope had looked to be plucked from fire and given a bliss we deserved for having imagined it, is it implied that we must protect this perversely weak animal, whose muzzle's nudgings suppose there is milk to be found in us? Must hold to our icy hearts a shivering God?

When a narrative chimes with pre-existing beliefs, it can seem so self-evidently true that all conflicting evidence is discarded.

He was determined to take responsibility but he was just a cog. She'd seen that many times before. It was a belief often borne of a traumatic childhood, it was so much more manageable to believe himself bad than the world.

One [belief] is that violence is caused by a deficit of morality and justice. On the contrary, violence is often caused by a surfeit of morality and justice, at least as they are conceived in the minds of the perpetrators. Steven Pinker

My trouble is that I think there is a track that things should stay on. I'm hooked to a belief that life should go a certain way. I develop an attachment to Plan A and set up my expectations accordingly. An important part of spiritual practice is to learn to let go, to recognize that Plan A exists only in my head.

Like his brothers before him, age had robbed Ham of the innocence of his childhood faith. He had exchanged his wide-eyed belief in the Almighty for a pragmatic skepticism of anything he couldn't experience with his senses. Now, when he needed a spiritual pillar to lean on, it wasn't there. Can you show it to me? Noah knelt beside his son to pray.

Can you be more clear?" No. When I try, my beliefs or desires come out beautiful. They are beautiful to me, but I cannot understand them in that form.

Don't let people tell you your ideas are stupid. If you're really passionate about something, find a way to build it.

It became clear to us early on that Catholic dogma was pretty much a fairy story concocted to satisfy the incurious masses, and we were buying none of it.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.

The hoax worked because of the West's absolute belief in its superiority to people of color; if a savvy Westerner could not explain such a trick, it must be real. The rope trick filled a cultural need—and revealed the gullibility that such delusions of superiority inevitably create.

Are you aware of this acronym for F.E.A.R: False Evidence Appearing Real.

Herein lies the paradox: If you want more of whatever it is you desire, you have to first prove to the universe that you are capable of having it by developing a consciousness that affirms there is no shortage of it. The only way to do this is by creating a vacuum or space for it to be received, and the only way you can create a space for it to be received is by letting go of what you do have, trusting that the universe knows what it is doing. That's the law of circulation in action.

And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow

Just as courage has no meaning without fear, faith has no meaning without doubt. They're the yin and yang of all aspiration.

With writers, it's frequently the same. We all want faith to win out over doubt.