Quotes About Belief

La imaginación, lo que tú llamas la mentira, no es menos real porque no pueda verse. Nuestras pasiones ocultas, nuestras emociones ambiguas, nuestras preferencias inexplicables; de eso trata la verdadera verdad.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith. If God were to take away all His blessings, health, physical fitnes, wealth, intelligence, and leave me but one gift, I would ask for faith –- for with faith in Him, in His goodness, mercy, love for me, and belief in everlasting life, I believe I could suffer the loss of my other gifts and still be happy....

Kabullenmenin hayat?n öÄŸrettiÄŸi en a??r ve en zor ders olduÄŸunu düÅŸünüyordu.

in this way is very bad for the country. We always thought the banks behaved with absolute probity, despite their code of secrecy. We, the Jews, trusted them. We believed all that gold had been returned to its rightful owners, wherever they or their descendants could be found, but it seems this is not so.

Since Government's planned economy has always kept people poor, the almost static living conditions through all Old World history seem to verify the pagan belief in a static universe. All Old World thinking about economics assumes that wealth cannot be increased, but must be divided.

A common belief about behaviorally challenging kids is that they have learned that their challenging behavior is an effective means of getting their way and coercing adults into giving in, and that their parents are passive, permissive, inconsistent disciplinarians. If this view hasn't led to improvements in your child's behavior, you may want to try on some different lenses: your child is lacking skills rather than motivation.

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

I have never quite managed to see how we can make sense of the sacramental life of the Church without a theology of the risen body; and I have never managed to see how to put together such a theology without belief in the empty tomb. If a corpse clearly marked 'Jesus of Nazareth' turned up, I should save myself a lot of trouble and become a Quaker.

If people take seriously doctrines such as the divinity of Christ, it is not primarily because they can treat them as if they were tidy conclusions to an argument, deductions from readily available evidence, but because – however obscurely they are grasped, however challenging the detail – they see that the language of doctrine holds together a set of intractably complex questions in a way that offers a coherent context for human living.

Awareness of the settler-colonialist context of US history writing is essential if one is to avoid the laziness of the default position and the trap of a mythological unconscious belief in manifest destiny. The

Thus was born an ideology: the belief in the inherent value of gold despite its relative uselessness in reality.

He who is unwilling to trust to the power of thinking cannot, in fact, enlighten himself regarding higher spiritual facts.

Každý úsudek, který není vystavÄ›n na patÃ…â"¢i?ném základÄ› duÅ¡evního bohatství, vrhá totiž soudícímu na jeho životní cestu kameny. Jednou vytvoÃ…â"¢ený úsudek o nÄ›jaké vÄ›ci ?lovÄ›ka neustále ovliv?uje a své zážitky pak nepÃ…â"¢ijímá tak, jak by je pÃ…â"¢ijímal, kdyby si nevytvoÃ…â"¢il úsudek, jenž s touto vÄ›cí souvisí.

We prayed until our faith passed into an exhaustion that numbed us to sleep.

A liar only lies when he hopes to be believed.

Then Kotick roared to the seals: I've done my best for you these five seasons past. I've found you the island where you'll be safe, but unless your heads are dragged off your silly necks you won't believe. I'm going to teach you now. Look out for yourselves!

Well, I believe in miracles, so it comes to

The sin is mine and the punishment is mine. I made believe to myself for now I see it was but make-belief—that thou wast sent to me to aid in the Search. So my heart went out to thee for thy charity and thy courtesy and the wisdom of thy little years.

What am I? Mussalman, Hindu, Jain, or Buddhist? That is a hard nut.' 'Thou art beyond question an unbeliever, and therefore thou wilt be damned. So says my Law—or I think it does. But thou art also my Little Friend of all the World, and I love thee. So says my heart.

Your Gods and my Gods—do you or I know which are the stronger? —Native Proverb.

I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble.

This is true; we all say so.

there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces;

Our time is short. I shouldn't have believed that this morning; but now things are different. Binkie, where was Moses when the light went out?' Binkie smiled from ear to ear, as a well-bred terrier should, but made no suggestion.