Quotes About Belief

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

My family is so loving and so encouraging. Ever since I was little, it was implanted in my head - and my sister's and my brother's - that we could do anything our heart desired to do, and to not be afraid.

I'm a woman of faith. And I really believe that if I say, 'God, this is what I want,' He says, 'I'll give you your desires, as long as they line up with My will.'

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.

Atletico fans were always so desperate for us to win; it was like a religion to them.

I support anyone finding their worth despite being told they can't do something.

I always wanted to be an NBA player, and despite what anybody said, I was going to get to that point.

I was a terrible student. When I went to Sidwell Friends, there were 100 kids in my class. I was the worst student, by far. But I had a few teachers who, despite all that, believed in me.

I think there's a path cut for us, a destination mapped out. Everyone ends up where they're meant to be, and how they got there doesn't really matter.

It was clear in my mind that my belief in God, coupled with the desire to work hard to serve others, meant I was destined to succeed.

I believe if you are destined to do something, things will definitely happen.

I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already.

I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.

Only god can defeat or destroy.

I grew up really religious, and my family still is, but I'm not so much. That scene in 'Cool Hand Luke', it just destroyed me.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.

My faith and reason tell me that God created the world, and I'm not particularly interested in the details. I'll find out when I meet my Maker.

I think God causes things to happen sometimes to get our attention. But I also know that God loves us and cares for us and knows the details in our lives.

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

I always believed that I would make it to the first team through hard work and determination and I didn't let anybody get in the way of my focus, even my dad when he had questions.