Quotes About Belief

Never mind,' she said, 'I don't see the point of a God.' 'And I don't see much point in a cat.' the Kami replied.

Because there's always a reason for everything, isn't there? Because if there isn't a reason for even one thing, like how you can get sick, or your husband stop loving you, or people you love die—then there's no reason for anything. So there must be reasons.

Myth and mysticism have been replaced in the world by social media."

Beginning writers tend to think that craft is their enemy. As long as they believe that, they will remain beginners, no matter how many years they write.

Have you ever heard anyone say 'Abracadabra'? Well, some think it means 'I create as I speak.' So it means we create our world as we speak. Maybe everytime we say something we are helping create our world.

Sometimes you just need to have faith in God and believe that everything will turn out for the best".

Life isn't fair; it's life," she said softly, confidently. "Everybody has times when they feel like God's just not there. But he's always there, always bringing you closer to him,

Her faith will always be there. It's there now. We've seen it. God has preserved her for some great purpose, and her faith is there to carry her through.

She wasn't a Christian just on Sunday mornings; being a Christian was the core of who she was. And I adored that about her.

The Lord is constantly teaching us. I know He has me in His right pocket and I'm very safe there. I love to see Him really work in my life, and I know He'll use me in His due time.

God's miracles are a prayer away.

People pay money to see others believe in themselves.

Still, I've always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless. I wrote an article for Artforum in the mideighties that had a line in it that the rock critic Greil Marcus quoted a lot: "People pay money to see others believe in themselves." Meaning, the higher the chance you can fall down in public, the more value the culture places on what you do. Unlike, say, a writer or a painter, when you're onstage you can't hide from other people, or from yourself either.

What is a star? Is stardom a kind of suspended adulthood? Is it a place beyond good and evil? Is a star a person you need to believe in--a daredevil, a risk-taker, a person who goes close to the edge without falling?

People pay money to see others believe in themselves." Meaning, the higher the chance you can fall down in public, the more value the culture places on what you do.

Just so you know, I've trusted you since camp.

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

Sometimes, just believing in someone is enough for them to start believing in themselves.

Fake freedom teaches that believers can live on the redline of this world, with one foot on "belief in Jesus" and the other entrenched in what offends holiness. Yet in this position, the enemy has access to attack anytime he chooses. This is not faith; it is spiritual roulette.

The motivation to share our faith does not rise from courage but love.

Anxiety can only happen when our hope is genuinely in the wrong thing, not in Jesus.

I find it hard to believe that a genuine spiritual master will tell me what to do when such a master should know that I will grow only by making my own decisions. For some people I have met, having a cosmic being give them personal instructions gives them a clear sense of being validated by the highest authority.

am not exaggerating; it can be scary to see what some people will believe in order to feel superior.