Quotes About Belief

A trend was a trend only because people thought it so. And in thinking it so, they made it so.

Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires. The beliefs represented by that impressive structure seemed curious to Ryan, a lifelong Catholic, but the people who held them were honest and hardworking, and fiercely loyal to their country, because they believed in what America stood for.

The remarkable thing was that everyone accepted the entire process, seemingly as normal as physical laws of nature, despite the fact that it was really as ethereal as a rainbow. The money did not physically exist. Even "real" money was only specially made paper printed with black ink on the front and green on the back. What backed the money was not gold or something of intrinsic value, but rather the collective belief that money had value because it had to have such value.

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

All history is really nothing more than the application of ideology to the past.

after you stop believing in santa claus, the whole world just goes downhill

What backed the money was not gold or something of intrinsic value, but rather the collective belief that money had value because it had to have such value.

Ryan asked, "Is there any economist in the world who correlates Russia's increased authoritarianism with their increased economic growth?" Helen Glass thought for a moment. "Sure, you can find some who will say just that, but remember, there were economists predicting the fall of capitalism and the rise of world communism, even in the eighties." Jack laughed. "Good point. You can always find an expert to confirm your belief, no matter how ridiculous.

Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can?for a time. But not a very long time.

You can always find an expert to confirm your belief, no matter how ridiculous.

question that remained now was whether he would be alive to perform the day's final salaat. That was in Allah's

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense

substitute hope for expectations, belief for knowledge.

There was reality, and then there was perception, and rarely the two shall meet.

you respect a man who says what he believes, even if you disagree with it?

And then I realized it was what the Arabs call inshallah: "It is not mine to do; it's mine to do the best I can; it's going to happen according to God's

God's will.

Brian had been killed the year before on a Campus black op in Libya. Dom had been there, he'd held his brother in his arms as he died, and then Dominic returned to The Campus, hell-bent on doing the hard, dangerous work that he believed in.

Christianity—and Judaism, and Islam, which were also religions of The Book—required

we're proceeding on the assumption that the operation initiated in America.

I had an empty heart and wish someone had told me about Jesus years ago. That's why I tell everyone about Him now. My life is in danger, but I don't care. I only want to follow my Savior and be faithful. That is my goal in life.

As for me, I expect to die for Jesus. In the West, you probably won't have to die for Jesus. But . . . will you live for Him?

I try not to think of these things. I choose to fix my eyes on Jesus Christ.

He didn't have any beliefs to speak of. A world that would deposit a child in a beer carton in the middle of nowhere seemed capable of you-name-it, but Dan did not think that you-name-it qualified as a belief.