Quotes About Belief

For it is only by loving, and having the courage to be loved in return, that you can find God, who exists most of all in

I mean that love is all around us," Alain says. "But the older we get, the more confusing it becomes. The more times we've been hurt, the harder it is to see love right in front of us, or to accept love into our hearts and truly believe in it. And if you cannot accept love, you can never really feel it.

It's never too late to find true love," he says, locking eyes with me. "You just have to keep your heart open.

I never understood the discord between our religions. If there is one thing I learned from the time young Rose spent with us, it is that we are all speaking to the same God. It is not religion that divides man. It is good and evil here on earth that separates us.

But God believes in you, my dear," Sister Maria Andrzeja replied immediately. She looked up and held Yona's gaze. "And that makes us all the same, all over the world.

Because, my dear, it is good to remember that you do not always have to see something to know that it is there.

Let them believe that the fairy tales were the fiction, and that everything else was real.

Remember that you control what you choose to believe in," I said. Anyone could look at our farm lives and see toil and squalor, or look at the same lives and see purpose, abundance, and joy. Same plot points, different story. "Very different things can be true simultaneously, and choosing the one with the better narrative is often extremely helpful.

Farmers are professional hopers.

Story collectors tend to be superstitious. Knock on wood, black cats, four leaf clovers... that sort of thing. After all, superstitions are the little stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our chaotic world.

She firmly believed that fears were best fought head-on. Courage being fear stuffed with hope and whatnot.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

He rolled his eyes. "Fiction lies for the truth.

Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.

Hold on to what you know you got - Hold on to what you been given lately, hold on 'cause the world will turn if you're ready or not.

Every time we look back on this moment when we signed this agreement which severed Singapore from Malaysia, it will be a moment of anguish. For me it is a moment of anguish because all my life … you see, the whole of my adult life … I have believed in Malaysia, merger and the unity of these two territories. You know, it's a people, connected by geography, economics and ties of kinship … Would you mind if we stop for a while?

Before you trust your camel to Allah's protection, tie it fast on to your fence.

it will require a struggle to try to make America reality-based again.

Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication.

If I think it's true, no matter why or how I think it's true, then it's true, and nobody can tell me otherwise.

Why did Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan begin remarking frequently during the 1980s and '90s that people were entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts? Because until then, it hadn't seemed like a serious problem in America.

If you're fanatical enough about enacting and enforcing your fiction, it becomes indistinguishable from nonfiction

technology that seems magical and miraculous can encourage and confirm credulous people's belief in make-believe magic and miracles.

Compared to a decade ago, it's true, almost twice as many Americans say they don't believe in God. But consider the actual numbers: the total of agnostics and atheists has gone from extremely tiny (4 percent in 2007) to very tiny (7 percent in 2014). Those are percentages one otherwise finds in less-developed countries. If that is evidence for U.S. secularization, we are now just about as secular as, oh, Turkey.