Quotes About Belief

I never needed eyes to see — never. I simply needed vision and belief.

During the darkest days, a saying took hold in Kansas: "there is no god west of Salina.

I think we receive a great deal what we expect in this world. -Laura Ingalls Wilder

She praised his 'agricultural theology', having long ago taken such advice as gospel: don't go looking for a better place "but MAKE one.

I grew up with no religion and she had all religion. She celebrates everything and I celebrate nothing.

the key to life is to believe in something that matters, something big and beautiful, something more profound than fame, money.

It's like Michael Cunningham says in The Hours: Happiness is believing that you're gonna be happy. It's hope.

but the key to life is to believe in something that matters, something big and beautiful, something more profound than fame, money.

Remember: That voice in your head that says you can't do it is a liar.

Of course, the problem with self-transformation is that after a while, you don't know which version of yourself to believe in, which one is true.

Faith is a kind of imagination. It's imagining a world we can't see, but hope is there.

Nubia closed her eyes and prayed silently. 'Dear Lord, I am not afraid to die. But please help us do the right thing. Amen.

Learn to trust what you cannot see far more than what you can see.

Why are you so sad? You read too much poetry. And you believe the wrong things about poetry. Poetry doesn't come from outer space. Poetry doesn't descend from heaven. Give life a chance. Life is stronger than the interpretation of life.

She thought the world was a good idea that had failed.

What you focus on is what you will create in your life. What you truly believe you are, you will become.

God is Great Beer is Good and People are Crazy

You are whatever and whoever your self-confidence allows you to be

Sometimes following God means throwing caution to the wind. Sometimes caution is a symptom of faithlessness.

everything. She lives with a profound confidence that he holds the whole world (including her) in his hands.

God gave us minds and he means for us to use them. We need to know God better, so we won't be trying to trust a stranger when the lights go out and we're in a spiritual free-fall.

The prosperity we enjoy shapes both the questions we ask and the answers we embrace.

No matter what the challenge or adversity, my ironclad conviction is that God is always good, is always on his throne, is always working, always knows what he is doing, and that his love for me never stops.

After all, deprivation was what he believed was there, but it was the ever-present, self-confirming mechanism of fulfillment that fulfilled his perception of deprivation! Once the hungry ghost perceives that fulfillment is more real than deprivation, he can start to perceive fulfillment everywhere because if we perceive something somewhere, we will eventually perceive it everywhere. That's the quirk of consciousness.