Quotes About Belief

The most successful people in the world are those who have the ability to perceive what is possible even when it looks impossible. They look beyond the obstacle blocking their success and they recognize that through perseverance, they will ultimately be victorious.

I love what it says in Psalm 62:5: "My soul, wait thou only upon God: for my expectation is from Him." THE MESSAGE puts it this way: "God, the one and only—I'll wait as long as he says. Everything I hope for comes from him, so why not?" Isn't that awesome? Everything you hope for comes from God. Everything!

Faith is an action. Faith is acting on what you believe. If your believing is inaccurate your actions will be inaccurate and your faith will not produce. That is one of the most difficult things for Christians to grasp. Faith is an action. Faith is acting on what you believe.

Replace that old picture of defeat and failure with a new picture of victory and success.

I don't major on my past. I major on my future and my future is bright in God.

And that's when I realized, when you're a kid you don't need a costume, you ARE superman.

Although unanswered prayer is indeed a theme of the book, it is not the heart of the book, for unanswered prayer describes a problem but offers no solutions.

The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.

Society has always said: Make money. Artists have said: But there's something else. Cliché City. But in Hollwood there's the Big Lie that you can have both. A lie you want to believe.

Sometimes, it's like you know what people think: You know what they're thinking, and you know it's wrong. All you want to do if change their mind, but you can't.

Metric fixation is the persistence of these beliefs despite their unintended negative consequences when they are put into practice.6 It occurs because not everything that is important is measureable, and much that is measurable is unimportant.

But his own interpretation is that the improvement in medical outcomes was brought about primarily by "a shift in clinicians' belief—by showing them that the rate of infection was not inevitable and could be controlled, in a way that appealed to their professional ethos as doctors and nurses.

Metric fixation, which aspires to imitate science, too often resembles faith.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

Never fall into the mistake of believing, said the examiner, that things are everywhere the way they are here, wherever here is, wherever everywhere is.

The judges are doing what I am telling them to do, simply because I understand better than they do this one thing: the absurd lengths to which human beings go to prove themselves reasonable.

The world isn't the place we are told to live in. It is another place entirely. We have both more choice, and less, than we are supposed to have.

Mr. Gibbons had the talent that many puppeteers have of speaking to children as though he believed they were intelligent and could understand a thing or two.

She explained crying to him. He said that it felt very good. In his opinion, it was almost the same as laughing. She said that many people believe it is the same.

Our knowledge about ourselves is our least reliable knowledge. Yet, so thoroughly do we ordinarily champion our own cause that it is acknowledged effective to believe that a person who deems it impossible to any further champion his/her own cause must be guilty.

number one problem that I believe plagues believers today is doubt about what God can and will do for His children.

Don't let doubt enter into your heart. Stop it in its tracks where it starts—in the mind. Replace every doubtful thought with a faith thought and speak the Word! If you live like this, talk like this, and do this on a consistent basis, you are going to be a success.