Quotes About Belief

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake—let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; t

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved

We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross.

Il n'y a dans les religions que cela d'irreductible. Mais cet irreductible suffit. On ne voit pas l'immense être nécessaire; on le sent.

Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread.

The devil may visit us, but God lives here.

Words can be liars, we must not blindly believe what they say.

I was always a little girl, lost in Oz, looking for a way to believe that there was no place like home Ã¢â'¬Â¦

I don't know the right thing to do anymore. I want to protect Sophie and keep her safe, but what good is safety if she has to grow up in a world where people disappear without a trace because they pray to a different God?

A thing can be true and not the truth, now shush.

As she neared her destination, she took her glasses off. She hadn't come to the point where she trusted the world as seen through a lens.

Where there is life, there is hope, and where there is love, there is forgiveness.

Leni sighed. How was Mama's unshakable belief in Dad any different than his fear of Armageddon? Did adults just look at the world and see what they wanted to see, think what they wanted to think? Did evidence and experience mean nothing?

I'd always believed that the truth of a person was easily spotted, a line drawn in dark ink on white paper. Now, I wonder. Maybe the truth of who we are lies hidden in all those shades of gray that everyone talks about.

her daughter was here, with her, inside of her. She'd always been here, even when Jude was too broken to look for her. But it was time now to say, "Good-bye, baby Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I love you." For the first time in years, she believed that her daughter could hear her.

story is only sad if there's no happy ending. I guess I always believe in that ending.

perhaps that's what life is, getting it wrong and going on, and still believing, always believing.

People think love is an act of faith," her mother said. "Sometimes it's an act of will.

You're stronger than you think you are. You can get through this, whatever happens, you can get through it. Just don't forget...the rain. It's an angel's tears. And every glass you've ever seen is half full. Don't let yourself forget that. I know what it does to a person... forgetting that hope is out there.

If ever I am inclined in the future to disbelieve in love, I will remember this moment.

He should know better than to dream so big and to give voice to those dreams.

Hope is a coin I carry: an American penny, given to me by a man I came to love. There were times in my journey when I felt as if that penny and the hope it represented were the only things that kept me going.

Time and again, she had returned to God, pleading for help, promising her faith. She wanted to believe that she was neither alone nor in charge, but rather that her life was unfolding according to His plan, even if she couldn't see it.....Now, though, such hope felt as slight and bendable as tin.....She was alone and there was no one else in charge, no one but the Nazis.

Jack believed in things and fought to make the world a better place. He was the kind of man a girl could count on.