Quotes About Belief

The fact was I never had the tools for proper living, because my family never had the tools, and I thought the entire human race was like that.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

But Jackie Robinson was a man of faith. I do not just mean faith in God, though he was indeed a religious man. He also had extraordinary faith in himself and his destiny. He believed deeply that he was the one meant to cross baseball's color line. He believed deeply that God would not have led him down this path only to fail. That faith filled him with something more powerful that confidence. He knew that we would succeed because to do anything less would be unthinkable.

But to lose my idealism, to quit believing in the ability of human beings to rise above their baser instincts, was to become old and bitter and of no service to anyone, not even myself.

Doctors and nurses saved me from the big, dark plunge, and I didn't thank Jesus when I came around. I thanked the medical staff, their years of schooling, their tremendous skills. I always figured if I was a doctor and I saved some person's life, and the first thing they said when they came around was "Thank Jesus," I would have wanted to stick a pair of forceps up their ass and tell them to see if Jesus could yank those out for them.

Christians think you got to do good 'cause you want to go to heaven, but if you do good 'cause you want to do good and don't believe in that shit, then they figure it's the slow oven for you anyway. They like a god that's a bully, makes you want to do good 'cause he's gonna rough you up.

McBride lo colpì con un pugno con tanta di quella forza che Jack credette di sentire le vite passate che smettevano di esistere;

What becomes of someone who thinks he has all the power... and what becomes of someone who believes he has none?

Most Americans believed that winning two European wars in a single generation was more than should be required of American troops,

It takes something special to realize that the preconceived choices and beliefs that you've always had aren't necessarily the best ones for you. It's not easy.

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.

When you know what you want, all you really have to do is think it and feel it.

You'll feel better once you trust the Divine to take care of you," he

If you don't have some self doubts and fears when you pursue a dream, then you haven't dreamed big enough.

you will attract what you live.

In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.

When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union's side, Lincoln's unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God's side.

I want you to tell them my little story, and then tell them the good news-that when you know Christ, you know there's something better coming.

What an honor to be chosen to care for God's chosen people." Luc reflected on that for the next few days. He hadn't really thought about it as an honor. It just seemed the right thing to do. The Bible commanded him to love his neighbors. Weren't these his neighbors, even if they didn't believe the same things he believed?

Jesus said, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him.

By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

John 1:12 says, 'As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name.' And the apostle Paul told us in Ephesians, 'By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.