Quotes About Belief

while Tolkien's stories were not historically real, they were true

Good books and good friends were critical in Lewis's conversion.

When the world tries to convince you of drought, trust in God's ability to care for you.

Don't ever let anyone steal your dreams.

This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.

I believe that things should be used, even rare and valuable things, otherwise they lose their essential nature. That's far worse than being broken.

Looking out on the field that morning, I didn't believe we could finish the cut. It was too big a job and I was too small a helper. But because I loved Pat and loved the farm and the Droim, because I loved that crop of barley and couldn't stand to see it spoiled, I was prepared to try. I took a deep breath and a first step and both eventually led me to the knowledge that I was capable of things bigger than I'd imagined.

But some contemporary believers, such as Lisa Domke, a pastor and mother in Seattle, ground their identity in Christ's love but a love that goes beyond sentiment or feeling. "I say that I am someone seeking to live in the world with love and humility," Lisa reports, "following God in the way of Jesus." Love is the active practice of Christian virtue. As Sky, a Seattle Baptist, relates, "Children know that love is behavior, not romantic words.

When someone asks me what kind of Christian I am," says Brent Bill, a Quaker writer, "I say I'm a bad one." He goes on to say, "I've got the belief part down pretty well, I think. It's in the practice of my belief in everyday life where I often miss the mark." Finally, he states, "I see myself as a pilgrim—traveling the faith path to the destination of being a good Christian—and into the eternal presence of God.

Theologians pitted devotion and morality against belief, defining faith no longer as a way of life but rather as intellectual assent to certain creeds or confessions; their books were filled with "quarrelling, disputing, scolding, and reviling."38

hope. And the possibility of history's transformation lies through that door…. Spiritual visionaries have often been the first to walk through that door, because in order to walk through it, first you have to see it, and then you have to believe that something lies on the other side.2 A

Where is the fault? Is it believing that the people you love are immortal? Untouchable? No, everyone believes that. Only no one know it's what they believe- until it happens. Then comes the rage, the banging about the walls, crying what if, what if. Everyone is always so damned surprised, that is the horror of it.

And when the darkest hour came, when all Hope seemed gone, when the hearts of many failed, when the flame was no longer visible but the right of faith, still i felt a superhuman force strengthen me as my love and my confindence could have accomplished the miracles în wich no one any longer believed.

but it won't last," "Yes," he replied. "Yes it will. You're all I see, hear, or need in all the world.

Revolutionaries can't afford to worry about tomorrow.

But more importantly, they show interest in the writer—they express confidence in the writer's talents and show faith in his or her ability to succeed. They understand what the writer is attempting. They catch the vision and then do all they can.

If we are encouraged to read high fantasies like The Tempest and urged to "enjoy a magic island and 'believe' in an Ariel and a Caliban," then why should we not also "suspend our disbelief" and enjoy the invented world of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings? Why not enter in and believe also in the magic of barrow-wights and orc-blades, Hobbiton, Tom Bombadil, and the tree-top city of Lothlórien?

Come with me, Elliot. I have wanted to ask you for weeks, but I have waited, out of fear and doubt and the belief that it's nothing but my own selfishness that wants you with me. I wrestled with this, and chance after chance passed me by. I can't afford to lose this one. Please accept. This time, please accept. And please believe that no matter what, I am, ever, Your Kai

I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.

You should know that you're exactly the person you think you are." Elliot turned away as the tear escaped. That's what she was afraid of.

You should know you're exactly the person you think you are.

I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

Organized religion was not important to him, he said. It was more important how people behaved in their daily lives than what they did on Sunday.