Quotes About Belief

P.J. said, That's true about any statement we make, isn't it? We never tell as much as we know. Right! So We're lying. So almost every statement is a lie, we can't help it. Yeah. But some statements are more lies than others.

The gardener is the quintessential optimist: not only does he believe that the future will bear out the fruits of his efforts, he believes in the future.

the hopeful young author had no doubt that books might change the world.

To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numberous others, will say it for you.

You who are non-believers rely upon us, to confirm your sense of superiority. You need to imagine us as unchanged, unchangeable.

You love the life you've lived, you're an American girl. You believe you have chosen it.

And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.

No matter what she said publicly, the principal of North Hammond High did not believe in rehabilitation for the young. It was too expensive, and its results were unreliable. Recidivism was high. Better to accept that with a few exceptions the young were an accursed generation, frontal lobes stunted from video games, cell phones, TV, sex-gratification by the hour. They had no sense of history and so could have no sense of the future. Equipped with state-of-the-art

You love the life you've lived, there is no other. You love the life you've lived, you're an American girl. You believe you have chosen it.

Annabel was devoutly religious. She could not have clearly stated what set her Presbyterian faith apart from other Protestant faiths, or, except in the most obvious terms, how it was to be distinguished from Roman Catholicism, an old and much-feared enemy;

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'—the Americans understand this admonition, deep in their killer-souls.

Stalwart Zeno seemed oblivious, that faith in his daughter being alive after more than forty days did not compute with faith that Brett Kincaid would soon be arrested for a crime involving his daughter.

It had well be a dream, no one would believe me anyway.

the term "trauma" was not common usage. Like other adults of the era my parents believed that healing was a matter of not dwelling upon the past.

Rogar a Dios que sea bueno contigo porque lo que te aterroriza es que Dios no sea bueno contigo.

Faith' and 'science' inhabit totally different spheres, and do not overlap, even to share the same vocabulary.

You don't understand! Gilbert turned his back on me, but he wouldn't have turned his back on God." Ariah

It was Corinne's secret belief that her daughter was a far finer person than she was herself, a riddle put to her by God. I must become the mother deserving of such a daughter—is that it?

Burnaby wasn't a Christian but he behaved like a Christian is supposed to behave which made Colborne, a Christian, uncomfortable.

One thing it was not: love at first sight. He didn't believe in such. He wasn't a believer in romance, sentimental coincidences, "meanings" snatched out of the air. He certainly didn't believe in destiny, he was a gambler by nature and you know that destiny is just chance you try to manipulate for your own profit. Yet

I choose to believe Herb Yellin when he says I am a major writer now for one can choose to believe any number of things, encouraging, discouraging, good, bad, neutral, far-fetched, probable, amusing, tragic; etc. and I choose quite openly, quite deliberately, and I hope with a certain modesty, to believe the things, the phrases, the judgments of strangers, that will put me in the most productive mood...that will make me, simply, happier.

For it had always seemed evident to him, Jesus adored his faithless Judas above the other disciples.

her employer Carl Spader had a saying: You're in politics, you're an optimist. You're no longer an optimist, you're no longer in politics. You're no longer an optimist, you're dead.

At such times you give yourself over to His will. There is no opposition to God, there is only surrender.