Quotes About Belief

Fate's book, but my italics.

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.

I never fail to be mystified by those who regard the revision of a former opinion as a sign of weakness.

We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord" (2 Corinthians

Unworthy as I am, he allowed me to go to heaven, and I know the next time I go there, I'll stay.

God still answers prayers, God still performs miracles. Heaven is real.

Some may not believe my account; they may think it was some kind of wish fulfillment during a point of severe trauma. I don't have to defend my experience. I know what happened to me. For those of us whose faith is in the reality of heaven, no amount of evidence is necessary.

When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God.

That's perhaps the biggest miracle: People prayed and God honored their prayers. As

God had chosen to keep me alive. Even in my worst moments of depression and self-pity, I never forgot that. Christy

couldn't say it, but I believed then-and still do-that I survived only because a number of people wanted me to. They were relentless, passionate, and desperate, and they believed God would hear them. People prayed for me who had never seriously prayed before; some who hadn't uttered a word of petition in years cried out to God to spare me. My experience brought people to their knees, and many of them had changed in the process of praying for me to live.

I refer to them as miracles-although some may call them fortunate circumstances-because I believe there are no accidents or surprises with God.

Boro replied, "Let those believe who want to believe. We'll stay as we are.

Proverò e riproverò. Non mi darò mai per vinto. Guarda laggiù, sulla brughiera. C'è un altro presagio. Lo terrò a mente. C'è sempre un altro arcobaleno.

If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits.

Capuchin monkeys have no faith in America; they hold to no dream

Yet it remains a commonplace of the official Australian worldview that all that is distinct and admirable in the national character and belief comes from the bush. It made Australians what they are.

Now he seeks truth in silence. He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God are the same. Truth, stillness, and God.

There are the gods of place and the gods of commerce, and if you have to bet who's going to win out, put your money on money every time.

Keller has long believed that you have to be lucky to be good, but not good to be lucky.

The suits love their numbers, Malone thinks. This new management breed of cops are like the sabermetrics baseball people. They believe the numbers say it all, and when the numbers don't say what they want them to, they massage them like Koreans on Eighth Avenue until they get a happy ending.

There has always been philosophical speculation on the question, What if there were no God? Keller thinks as he walks through the slush. But no one has really asked, much less answered, the question, What if there were no Satan?

He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God are the same. Truth

And maybe that's the best we can do in this world, he thinks as he gets up to resume watering the flowers—tend to the garden and maintain the hope of a God. Against all evidence to the contrary.