Quotes About Belief

Which of us can say what the gods hold wicked?

We don't get to choose what truths God reveals to us -- but we do get to choose what we do with the truths -- whom we share it with and how.

I know that the harder you try to dispel a legend the more power it gains.

The way in which the story of meat is conceptualized is with constant reference to humans' will: we allow animals their existence and we begin to believe that animals cannot exist without us.

Vegetarians, despite the variety of ways in which to argue their perspective, always appear to be saying "Don't eat meat." Meat eaters cannot make sense of this because a part of their definition of what makes sense is eating meat.

our inner thoughts and attitudes are not passive in their effects, but create reality.

Do you believe in Jesus? Jesse looks at me so brown-eyed it hurts.He nods."I do," he says. I sit up. "I think you look like him.

And I believe him. For the first moment since the Prophet has made his announcement, I feel like maybe, maybe, I have a chance. (44)

I would not have been able to articulate it at that time, but I had begun a painful journey toward an impossible goal, a journey that lasted a long time: how to love a God who hurts you.

That's what I believe, God exists. God is there. But God doesn't decide what happens here on earth; we do. God gave us free will and we have to use it." ~Zvi

Hubris, thy name is Mallory -- she believed she could get away with mouthing off to the chief of D's in front of witnesses. She could not. Coffey could tell that much by the change in the atmosphere -- the dead silence of a room with too many guns in it.

Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most people become flustered, upset or even angry when it is suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be God the Mother, or Goddess.

People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.

Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?

Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion.

Everyone who doesn't want to believe in supernormal powers says the people who experience them are psycho. What the hell kind of a world is this if all magic moments are psychotic?

At times there's a razor-thin line between truth and insanity.

The university doesn't THINK; the university KNOWS. If the university says it's Thursday, then it's Thursday.

You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to.

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad—I've never changed my mind about that.

No friend of my parents is a pervert. It's physiologically impossible.

There is truth. There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth.

IF, like those with the growth mindset, you believe you can develop yourself, then you're open to accurate information about your current abilities, even it it's unflattering. What's more, if you're oriented toward learning, as they are, you need accurate information about your current abilities in order to learn effectively

As growth-minded leaders, they start with a belief in human potential and development—both their own and other people's. Instead of using the company as a vehicle for their greatness, they use it as an engine of growth—for themselves, the employees, and the company as a whole.