Quotes About Belief

I tried to unbelieve that it had happened, to force time back by sheer effort of will.

And what do you believe?" A slow smile spread over his face. "I believe in you. You are my new beginning.

Suddenly, everything was easy and clear. I simply did whatever Chade told me to do, and trusted to him to have it turn out right. My spirit rode high on the crest of that wave of faith, and sometime during the night it occurred to me: this was what Burrich had had from Chivalry, and what he missed so badly.

opinions may have truth in them but that truth must be free of opinions.

When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—' 'Sometimes you can't believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you're afraid to believe it. I understand your hesitation.

Bee, I will always choose to believe you first. So it is your serious responsibility to be righteous in what you do. It is the pact that must exist between us.

you cannot fend off the enemy if you do not have confidence in those who stand behind you.

When she spoke his name, Beloved, he believed she meant it. He spoke of an adolescence I envied. Pampered, praised, educated . . . any child's dream. But we all awake from dreams.

For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, "You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm.

Trust is not trust until it is complete.

Never have I heard anything so unnerving as a hardened warrior praying to a god known for his merciless heart.

I defended him, "He's a good man. He was kind to me. I want to believe he was really my friend." "I know that. So do I. But good men can disagree. Severely.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider

Any future can be!" she replied, laughing at me. "If it were not so, if it were fixed, it would be a past. You say a foolish thing. How can a future be impossible?

Tú creas posibilidades. Mientras existas se puede cambiar el futuro.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider them all, boy.

Attitude and bearing. Believe you are beautiful, and so will everyone else

For I had already dreamed your face and I knew I must find you, even though everyone had assured me that you did not and could not exist.

She thinks you will succeed. But whether you will know you have succeeded, or if the success will be the one you would have chosen for yourself, well, those are things no one can say now. But she knows you will succeed at whatever you are meant to do." p.613: Paragon to Brashen (about Mother)

And I had gone along with such a crooked piece of logic. Why? Did either of us believe that teaching children might be easier than killing them?

This was done by someone who believes himself very clever, and believes others are very stubid.

when all the things in my life seem to collide and contradict each other, I pick one set of facts and believe those, no matter what." I lifted my eyes and met his as I asked him, "Do you blame me?

Oh, I think that children pray so, to find a lost doll or that Father will bring home a good haul of fish, or that no one will discover a forgotten chore. Children think they know what is best for themselves, and do not fear to ask the divine for it. But I have been a man for many years, and I should be shamed if I did not know better by now.

It could all happen again, and I could not stop it. I think I grasped then, fleetingly, the passion that powered the Fool. He believed in the terrible strength of the White Prophet and the Catalyst, to shoulder the future from the rut of the present and into some better pathway. He believed that some act of ours could prevent others from repeating the mistakes of the past