Quotes About Belief

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.

Christian' makes a poor adjective

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

Truth is overrated.

Making sense is overrated. It's just confirming what people already think. Making new sense is more important.

The world's most deadly fluff is: "I would definitely buy that." It just sounds so concrete. As a founder, you desperately want to believe it's money in the bank. But folks are wildly optimistic about what they would do in the future. They're always more positive, excited, and willing to pay in the imagined future than they are once it arrives.

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There were many of us who believed relationships, in particular, were something to be avoided because this kind of contact would lead to all manner of feelings that were disturbing and would be a distraction to our practice of the dharma. It was a great source of amusement that while we tried to live relatively celibate lives, we had in the building one room with a double bed where couples could go to have "contact with the object." I cannot imagine what we were thinking.

Renee used to say real life was a bad country song, except bad country songs were believable and real life isn't.

Brother Jim loved to talk about how Jesus wasn't a pussy.

People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

anyway. Apollo, patron of Delphi and prophesy?

There weren't many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

Not that I like having my direst preconceptions about humanity confirmed or anything. But I was right.

If there is no trust, there is nothing. Trust is all.

Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her well?shaped tuffet—all forgotten or discounted.And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the world, you have to give up the fantasies, the make?believe.

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.