Quotes About Belief

I feel it's okay to get angry with God. He can take it. Just don't stay angry. It takes courage to believe that the best is yet to come. I hold steadfast to that belief, especially when I come face-to-face with adversity.

I'm grateful I had the strength to fight. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come, especially when you are flat on your back and don't know if you're going to see tomorrow. I'm no Pollyanna, but I believe optimism is a choice — a muscle that gets stronger with use. Right foot, left foot…just keep moving.

At my very lowest, just when I believed unhappiness would eat me alive, I surrendered. I didn't suddenly become happy all at once; it took time. But I grew through the pain, grew to a place where I finally found understanding, and through understanding I found peace.

It is the Windigo way that tricks us into believing that belongings will fill our hunger, when it is belonging that we crave.

To plant trees is an act of faith.

Our work and our joy is to pass along the gift and to trust that what we put out into the universe will always come back.

How we approach restoration of land depends ... on what we believe that "land" means. If land is just real estate, then restoration looks very different than if land is the source of a subsistence economy and a spiritual home. Restoring land for production of natural resources is not the same as renewal of land as cultural identity.

The Onondaga people still live by the precepts of the Great Law and still believe that, in return for the gifts of Mother Earth, human people have responsibility for caring for the nonhuman people, for stewardship of the land.

Whether it was their homeland or the new land forced upon them, land held in common gave people strength; it gave them something to fight for. And so—in the eyes of the federal government—that belief was a threat.

We are all products of our worldviews - even scientists who claim objectivity.

Girls had to believe in anything but their own power, because if girls knew what they could do, imagine what they might.

A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.

Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy and the dogs that talk revolution, drunk with talk, liars and believers. I believe in my tusks. Long live freedom and damn the ideologies," said the gamey black-maned wild boar tusking the turf on Mal Paso Mountain.

Well, you're just going to have to take a leap of faith," he said. "I think I can do that," she said. "If you're there to catch me." "I'm here," he said. "I haven't let you down yet, have I?" She put her hand against his face. "No, Jack. You sure haven't.

How do you know?" "Well, I don't, I'm making this up, but I bet I'm right.

My gramma used to think that passage when Jesus said, 'In my Father's house are many rooms,' didn't mean there was a big hotel in heaven. It meant there were lots of different ways to worship.

Stop judging how everyone else treats their faith and study your own," George had counseled.

You know, Pastor, how we always say God won't give us more than we can handle?" "Yes, Lydie." She sighed. "I wish God didn't have such a high opinion of me." *

Dear God. I'll pedal if You'll steer.

Unfairness and injustice are two things that really threaten blind faith.

I never believed Jacob was human. But sometimes, like a lot of predators, he did a decent impression of one.

Leave it to Massachusetts to create a gun policy so paranoid that even when you took the proper legal steps no one believed you.

Believing Jesus means you're willing to risk everything you are and everything you have based on everything He taught and everything He did. It means learning to love Him more than you love your own life.

Satan's strategy is effective because he sprinkles his poisonous brew with just enough veracity that we'll swallow it.