Quotes About Belief

Beginning empty-handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how confident they are that God is with them.

Likewise, most of the world goes to bed at night under the assumption that if they were to die in their sleep, they would find themselves standing at the pearly gates. After all, good people go to heaven. And just about everybody thinks they are good.

Your beliefs shape your attitudes!

Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

He refers to a defeat as if it came from God, but a victory as if it came from himself.

This is my truth, tell me yours.

The key to following God was to stay on the road and off the shoulders.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

Sometimes it was possible for me to believe he had practised an enchantment upon me, as foxes in this country may, for, here, a fox can masquerade as human and at the best of times the high cheekbones gave to his face the aspect of a mask.

The demands of ritual are always stronger than those of reason.

But the Countess herself is indifferent to her own weird authority. She believes that, by ignoring it, she can abnegate it. More than anything, she would like to be human; but she does not know if that is possible. The Tarot always shows the same configuration: always she turns up La Papesse, Le Mort, Le Tour Abolie, wisdom, death, dissolution.

Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

the outcome of these things. As our King Solomon wrote, 'Man may throw the dice, but HaShem decides the outcome.

For God never sleeps, and though He may not communicate as we expect Him to, He

The prince frowned again. "The name? Why do you not speak your God's name?" "Because His name is holy," I answered, "and not to be invoked lightly.

Angela Elwell Hunt

I've heard that about your people. But how can one God do everything? He would have to be huge, and he would have to be everywhere

Yet I knew life did not end with death. David spoke of living after this life, and so did Job. Enoch and Elijah had been taken away, and where did they go? Surely they were with HaShem.

Sometimes, after we lay ourselves down before HaShem, we simply know what is right.

Ezra Diagos is correct when he says men's words do not have the authority of HaShem's.

Listen to the world and you'd think there are many ways to God', he says. 'But Jesus himself said, "I am the way, and no man comes to the Father but by me". So it doesn't matter what Oprah or Dr. Phil or Deepak Chopra says. They don't have the keys to Heaven. Only Jesus holds the keys to life and death, and if he says he's the way, then he is.

We took the words of God's guidance in the Torah and fashioned them into cages in which we felt secure. For