Quotes About Belief

But people rarely want the truth. We say that we want it when, really, we like being lied to. We prefer the ether of hope.

There's nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.

spread the rumor and, before anyone knows, it's a fact

Got a better theory?

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives...

You know, Ethan, there are cultures on earth who believe that—under the right circumstances—a person can be separated from their inner spirit." "Inner spirit?" Rush repeated. "I mean the intangible life force that links us from this world to the next. The Byzantines, the Incans, certain Native American tribes, Enlightenment-era Rosicrucians, all had variant belief structures regarding such a thing—there were, and are, many others.

God is there to give us strength for every hill we have to climb.

His absolute sovereignty means that I can trust Him with my tiniest doubt or with my most heart-wrenching fear.

Faith looks to God, but feelings look to what is going on around us. Faith hopes in who God is and in what He has promised.

Are you going to judge God by the circumstances you don't understand or judge the circumstances in the light of the character of God?

We commit sin when we worry. We do not trust God when we worry. We do not receive answers to prayer when we worry, because we are not trusting.

Perhaps it was the word God that was inviting to me, a word I thought I knew too much about. The one who had tortured Job, who had Abraham lift the ax to his son, who, disguised as a whale, had swallowed Jonah. I know now that the name does not refer to any deity, but means simply to call out and pray, to summon.

He didn't believe in miracles. If he'd had any philosophy in life in ran along the lines of the classic shit happens. Usually it was bad shit, sometimes it was good shit, but it was always random shit. You lived your life, & when the run was ended, that was it. Nothing.

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What could have happened to make a man look like that, as if he believed in nothing, trusted no one, and had nothing left of any value to himself except, perhaps, his own life—and that was only a "perhaps." Yet he was still only a man, for all his dangerousness. He was tired and ill, and

You don't have any brain damage. Any. Not even minimal. So now I have to believe in miracles, because you're a living, breathing, walking, talking miracle, and that means there's something else out there after all of this, isn't there? A luminous smile spread across her face. Yes, she said simply. 'Then get used to it, sweetheart, because the miracle has a permanent bodyguard.

Linda Lael Miller

How can dreams be secondhand? Lissie asked, sounding both skeptical and intrigued. Addie flipped on the headlights, watched the snowflakes dancing in the beams. Sometimes people give up on them, because they don't fit anymore. Or they just leave them behind, for one reason or another. Then someone else comes along, finds them, and believes they might be worth something after all.

Liberty begins with a heart reconciled to God.

But the truth might as well not exist to those who refuse to believe it.

In a great little book that he had the moral courage to publish during the First World War, Sigmund Freud traces physical heroism back to the fact that every man of intelligence knows that he must some day die, but that no man, in his innermost soul, ever believes in his own death.