Quotes About Belief

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

Indeed, to sacrifice seems as natural to man as to pray; the one indicates what he feels about himself, the other what he feels about God. The one means a felt need of propitiation, the other a felt sense of dependence.

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you

I could not comprehend God's plan but my understanding was not essential. My obedience was.

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.

It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.

When you were young you were afraid of ghosts, and when you were aged you called them to you.

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

If you do not believe in evil, you are doomed to live in a world you will never understand.

Books may well be the only true magic

They carried what was holy within them, for every man was a temple, and every prayer spoken could be heard by our Father above us.

Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she looked very far away. No wonder our people had raven eyes, so distant, so sad. No matter how wise she was, my mother looked like a woman who hadn't truely believed how much evil there was in our world. Not until this moment.

What is meant to be is bound to happen, whether or not you approve.

She truly believed that she carried her own fate in the palm of her hand, as if destiny was nothing more than a green marble or a robin's egg, a trinket any silly girl could scoop up and keep. She believed that all you wanted, you would eventually receive, and that fate was a force which worked with you, not against you.

Three hundred years ago people believed in the devil. They believed if an incident could not be explained, then the cause was something wicked, and that cause was often a woman who was said to be a witch. Women who did as they pleased, women with propriety, women who had enemies, women who took lovers, women who knew about the mysteries of childbirth, all were suspect (…)

It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth.

If you believed in something strongly and give it enough credence, it could appear right in front of you. Though it had been created in your mind, it would claim a presence in the real world, a monster at your door, a demon pulling at your coat sleeve.