Quotes About Belief

And nearly all socialists, like most other Oklahomans, were devout Christians. They flocked to yearly encampments that blended a faith in Jesus with a belief in socialism. At one gathering, a preacher proclaimed, "Christ's church was a working class church" and cited the verse from Ecclesiastes that decrees "the Profit of the Earth is for all."5

The only part of her that she had to leave behind was the part of her that doubted what she was capable of.

The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.

Taking time for a self-inventory is a necessary first step toward making the transition from a religion focused on belief to a spirituality based on behavior.

If you believe in something, work nights and weekends. It won't feel like work.

There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.

A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you loved to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.

It's a joyful thing, being a Catholic. I can't even think about sex without thinking about bodily waste.

Your values never fail you. You fail your values.

The sovereignty of God has been dying a slow death of a thousand qualifications.

Freedom cannot exist without morality, and morality can only be defined by the God who, by definition is the source of morality

Our faith does more than assent to propositions, such as the historical fact of Christ's resurrection. Persons who believe in the resurrection will live in a manner that reflects that belief.

I believe that in this way the teacher is the prophet of the true god and the usherer in of the true kingdom of god.

When your attitude is right, the facts don't matter, because what you think are facts are mostly opinions.

your beliefs are among the many things over which I currently have absolutely no control.

The Abbot of Cîteaux was asked how they'd recognize the two hundred heretics among twenty thousand townspeople. He's said to have answered, 'Kill them all, God will know his own.'" Alex

I knew that until I truly believed that whatever I did was the exact right thing, I'd keep doing the wrong thing.

We would make every object a weapon that would protect us from anything that tried to convince us that we would not live forever in happiness.

I lived a life where I had less than I desired. So instead of wanting more, sometimes I just made myself want even less. Sometimes I made myself believe that I wanted nothing, not even food or air. And if I wanted nothing, I'd just turn into a ghost. And that would be the end of it.

There are a lot of nice tings about being rich, but one of the best is that you can say almost anything, and if you do it with confidence, without blinking, people put a lot of effort into believing you

Buster emptied his pockets of the pennies he had taken earlier and lined them up in two equal stacks. He and his sister then took turns tossing them back into the fountains, each making wishes that they hoped were simple enough to come true.

It's getting harder to live without faith, or you, or whatever we choose to call what calls to us in the quiet. — Kevin Young, from "Book Rate," Dear Darkness: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009)

Do not believe angels are easy. Instead, terrible, terrific in the oldest sense-- the ground giving way beneath your feet.

Deep Song Belief is what buries us—that & the belief in belief— No longer do I trust liltlessness —leeward is the world's way—Go on plunge in —the lungs will let us float. Joy is the mile- high ledge the leap—a breath above the lip of the abandoned quarry—belief the dark the deep.