Quotes About Belief

It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth. Only days afterward, each person who had filled out this list was deported to a death camp.

Love is a false construct. It's how people convince themselves that life is worth living.

Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were contradictory. The human eye was not capable of true sight, for it was constrained by its own humanness, clouded by regret, and opinion, and faith.

Did you not think this was what the world was like? the Man from the Valley said to me.

His song would be our only path, despite any sins w might have committed and any punishments we might deserve. What we believed in, and what we said aloud, we could create before His eyes and in His image.

Nobody ever thinks it will happen," Sarah replied. "Real life is unbelievable. Souls are snatched away from us, flesh and blood turn to dust, people you love betray you, men go to war over nothing. It's all preposterous. That's why we have novels. To make sense of things.

I could tell people anything I wanted to and whatever I told them, that would be the truth as far as they were concerned. Whoever I said I was, well, then that's who I'd be.

For a very long time I believed that when we left our home, we left my mother as well. Where our village had stood the burned fields would again become green and her flesh would be in every blade of grass.

Although my father had never been there, I came to believe I would someday see that city for him.

You want me to lie to you? said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies.

She did believe in one thing, something so vast and deep she couldn't bring herself to tell John, even though it was probably safe to confide in someone she would never see again. She believed that people could lose themselves.

Life was worth living, no matter what fate might bring.

Alice Hoffman

and if a fool is believed then those who believe him are even bigger fools.

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

People in town said that if you stood beneath the magnolia, your beloved would come to you, no matter the season or the time, and when its flowers bloomed those who passed by became confused, imagining there had been snow in May, or that stars had fallen from the sky.

I believe in tragedy," Shelby responds coldly. "Not miracles." "Yeah, right. Faith is for idiots." Ben seems relieved. "Statistics speak the truth." "You have to stop thinking. It's going to drive us

but when there was nothing left to try it could not hurt to believe in something, however preposterous it might seem.

They believed babies who died in their cradles had the life sucked out of them by Satan's emissaries or by cats, which were thought to be untrustworthy, evil creatures.

You can't change what's meant to be

Keep the light out, have faith, trust in what you feel, not in what you see. Leave the matches at home. Leave it be.

Just because we don't know it or understand it doesn't mean there's not a reason.

People who think you can't will certain things into being with the power of your pride are fools, plain as that.

Salvation was mysterious, wasn't that always true?