Quotes About Belief

once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.

There is coincidence and there is fate. I am more than willing to argue with coincidence. But the few times I have argued with fate, I have lost. Badly.

if I fret about it, I shall have pre-judged myself to failure.

I haven't forgiven anything. And I don't believe in the "us" you think I might take vengeance on. You didn't do this to me. But even if you had, killing you would not undo it.

Many men hope that by saying a thing they can make it so

I suppose I cannot blame you for doubting me. I could scarcely believe it myself at first. I found all sorts of ways to deny it and explain it away. But it wouldn't stay gone.

If we cannot anchor ourselves in a belief that we will succeed, we have already been defeated.

Prudent men never trusted their luck. But Kennit had long ago decided that a man had to trust his luck in order for it to grow.

I have been called a fool as often as I have been called a prophet.

Jonge mensen schijnen er altijd van overtuigd te zijn dat er later meer tijd zal komen,' merkte Burrich op.

I will always choose to believe you first. So it is your serious responsibility to be righteous in what you do.

He would never trust to luck that his luck would not desert him. This convolution of logic pleased him.

Many men hope that by saying a thing they can make it so," Chade said neutrally. "Even when they must know better

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

The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain.

God's time for mercy will come in fact, it has alredy come of our time for believing has arrived Ask in faith without wavering, but never cease to petition the king

When I was little, I used to think that the sky at night was a big, black blanket that separated heaven from earth, and the stars were a whole bunch of little pin holes that the angels poked in the blanket so they could look down on us.

For many years, Sierra had compared the Holy Spirit to the wind, as it said the the Bible, noting that it was always there, no matter how faint the breeze. The wind went where it wanted to go, and its path was easy to detect because it moved objects and people. But no one had ever seen the wind.

Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

Because the truth is, we all die. And once we've stepped into eternity, all that will matter is if we remained faithful to the Lord through this short life on earth.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

A God-thing is] when something happens in your life, and you look at it and can't explain how or why it happened, but you know there's a reason for it. You know that God is doing something in your life, and it changes you. There's no other way to explain it except to see it as a God thing.

Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.

People hear and see what they expect to hear and see.