Quotes About Belief

I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.

It's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.

But oughtn't we to be prepared for the best too? It's just as likely to happen as the worst.

But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take what ever God sends.

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

I doubted God last Sunday said Rilla but I don't doubt Him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh.

Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.

ANNE: You said you'd keep me in my room until I confessed. I just thought up a good confession and made it as interesting as I could. MARILLA: But it was still a lie. ANNE: You wouldn't believe the truth.

Well, I don't know, said the Story Girl thoughtfully. I think there are two kinds of true thing - true things that are , and true things that are not , but might be.

You make me believe in fairies, whether I will or no, he told her, and that means youth. As long as you believe in fairies you can't grow old.

I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly,' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he was. I always think of him as a rather handsome gentleman.

My future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

Of course it's better to be good. I know it is but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it

I never knew before that religion was such a cheerful thing. I always thought it was kind of melancholy, but Mrs. Allan's isn't, and I'd like to be a Christian if I could be one like her.

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

I told you the Bible was more to be depended on than newspapers!

He believed he was dead and used to rage at his wife because she wouldn't bury him. I'd a-done it.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

You've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.

Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard today for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps tonight when I was straining the milk and never thinking of clovers. Cousin Jimmy says that is the way luck always comes, and it is no use to look for it.

If you believe in a thing it doesn't matter whether it exists or not

When you know things you have to go by facts. But when you just dream things there's nothing to hold you down.