Quotes About Belief

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour marked out by God for my enlightenment has come: He has shown me the powerlessness of reason, and the necessity of faith.

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

How come, Georgie, that you go armed to a civilian horse show?" "I believe in being prepared," he told her. "I always carry a pistol, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Self-trust, we know, is the first secret of success.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

My faith is that we must wish to become the total universe with its thousands of millions of worlds,_ and more than the universe or a myriad of universes,- and more even than Space and Time.

Whoever pretends not to believe in ghosts of any sort, lies to his own heart. Every man is haunted by ghosts... thought most of us (poets excepted) are unwilling to confess the acquaintance.

We owe more to our illusions than to our knowledge.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

We live in a time of terror, and contrary to what we see on television and allow ourselves to believe, the real goal of terror is not to kill people but to kill thought; to so demoralize a society that it implodes from within.

Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.

It is easy to blame the cacique, Tahacha said. But he is only a man; he derives his power from other men, who will follow him for only as long as they believe in him. It

But he is only a man; he derives his power from other men, who will follow him for only as long as they believe in him.

There was a mathematical elegance to faith like this: believe in God, follow His rules, and you will be rewarded; disbelieve, disobey, and you will be punished.

How hard the believers make it to get into heaven, I thought, when they have all this right here.

Just by saying something was so, they believed that it was. I now know that these conquerors, like many before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.

Somehow I had also convinced myself that my redemption could only come from some force outside of me-that if I were useful to others, they would save me. What a terrible thing to believe. I had to stop playing a part in my own misery. I had to save my own life.

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.