Quotes About Belief

They came to believe their doctors were holding back limited quantities of a cure, and attempted to take them hostage. They formed armies, congresses, religions; plotted rebellions, fomented treasons, practiced heresies.

He had heard it the way he wanted to hear it. He had known what he had wanted to know. Maybe it was always that way for almost everyone.

I want that on my gravestone. Snuffleupagus was real. No more. Just that.

My father says Alamagüselum lives in the walls and drinks tears.

Nor had he wanted to get right with God; he felt that God needed to get right with him.

Because there is no God. Your prayers are whispers to an empty room.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. —G. Greene

Written in faded blue letters, ornate, almost Gothic, across Gil's chest, were two lines: It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. —G. Greene

One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.

Max almost needed it to be true, for vampires to be real, because the other possibility- that their father was, and always had been, in the grip of a psychotic fantasy- was too awful, too overwhelming.

We're stronger than we think.

You are stronger than you think.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before (Philippians 3:13).

Faith, unaccompanied by rigorous skepticism, is a recipe for myopia and foolishness.

I believe in health care reform.

I always thought I was the head coach, but I learned God is the head coach. He makes up the game plan. He decides when you get to play overtime. And when he says game over, it's over.

We did something very simple," Effie says. "Yes, and what was that?" Effie Mumford stares off the porch into the night sky. The first stars of the evening are quietly arriving, and Billy, following her gaze, listens as the small girl speaks. "We allowed ourselves, for one brief moment, to believe in something we could not see.

Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen.

Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.

Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.

Euthanasia is against my religion so I decided to murder her.