Quotes About Belief

Believe that God is strong enough to save your children, no matter how you fail.

Faith, then, is simply a believing that there is a God who loves us, in spite of the poison of sin coursing through our soul.

Our problem is not that we desire happiness. No, our problem is that we continue to foolishly believe that we can attain it apart from him. We think that if we just try hard enough, the next time we'll get it right (whatever it is) and we'll be happy. Instead of pushing through to the true source of all joy and happiness, we sinfully believe the false promises of lesser gods.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

He [Eugène Rougon] believed exclusively in himself; where another saw reasons, Rougon possessed convictions; he subordinated everything to the incessant aggrandisement of his own ego. Despite being utterly devoid of real self-indulgence, he nevertheless indulged in secret orgies of supreme power.

Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.

La certitude d'avoir empêche de désirer.

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches,but not one wooden leg.

He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes.

After a time, she believed in the reality of this comedy

Her son would be incomparably handsome, good and powerful. He would be the expected Messiah; it is fortunate for humanity that all mothers have this pathetic faith, without it mankind would not have the ever-renascent strength to go on living.

But his doubts were again coming back to him; when you needed a miracle to gain belief, it means that you are incapable of believing. There is no need for the Almighty to prove His existence.

Ne doutez pas de moi, laissez-moi la force de me vaincre.

Le mépris de la science lui venait ; il voulait rester ignorant, afin de garder l'humilité de sa foi.

N'était-ce pas stupide de croire à l'intelligence du public ?

And, then, if only there were some truth in what the priests say, if only the poor of this world were rich in the next! These words were greeted with a burst of laughter, and even the children shrugged their shoulders, for the hard wind blowing from the outer world had taken away all their belief. They harbored a secret fear of ghosts down in the mine, but scoffed at the empty heavens.

No hay palanca más poderosa que una creencia para mover las multitudes humanas; no en vano se dice que la religión liga y aprieta a los hombres

But the best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying, our unbelief gradually starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day. He is no longer someone we theorize about. He is someone we want to be near.

She'd often observed that people generally lived up to whatever expectations they had of themselves. Building someone's self-confidence did a lot more good in getting the best results out of people than making them feel as if they couldn't do anything right.

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear

I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my character and acting on the false impressions she cherished.

En un sitio así yo sería capaz hasta de creer en un amor eterno, y eso que he creído siempre imposible que una pasión dure más de un año.

Cum a putut crede cineva vreodat? c? cei ce odihnesc în pacea p?mântului ar putea avea un somn tulburat?

Here! and here! replied Catherine, striking one hand on her forehead, and another on her breast. In whichever place the soul lives — in my soul and in my heart, I'm convinced I'm wrong!