Quotes About Belief

How easily Caleb had taken the teachings of his youth—the many gods, the animate spirit world—and simply recast them in terms of our teaching.

Who are we, really? Are our souls shaped, our fates written in full by God, before we draw our first breath? Do we make ourselves, by the choices we our selves make? Or are we clay merely, that is molded and pushed into the shape that our betters propose for us?

Those are the qualities of a great racehorse and a great gentleman. A gentleman likes to have a horse that gives the right answers to those questions, then he can believe that he will give the right answers too. To do my part, I have to give a man a likeness that shows not just how beautiful the horse looks, but how beautiful it feels to him.

I knew that the Name was still with him, animating his soul, even as his body failed.

Since they have no choice. I felt myself tumbling from the high plain onto which Mr. Mompellion's sermon that morning had lofted me. What choice had we, after all?

She believed that each humble thing, if done worthily, might be touched by grace. I hoped it might be so, for it would require an abundance of grace to clean me of my sin.

We expected that the international community would put a stop to it. I believed that. I was worried about getting through a few days, that's all, while the world—how do you say?—got its act together.

a few dreamers believed you could build a nation upon ideas such as liberty and equality.

But to believe, and not to act, or to act in a way that every fiber of your soul held was wrong- how can you not see? That is what would have been reprehensible

The angels enter not into a house where there is a dog or a likeness'—are those not the words of our Prophet?

I give a patient God My patient heart.

All at once, the voices began: some in slurred murmurs, some crying out loudly upon the Lord, others weeping and beating their breasts. At that time, you see, we all of us believed that God listened to such prayers.

Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know everything.

Those are the qualities of a great racehorse and a great gentleman. A gentleman likes to have a horse that gives the right answers to those questions, then he can believe that he will give the right answers too. To do my part, I have to give a man a likeness that shows not just how beautiful the horse

I think that you have mistaken pride for faith, as so many do.

Lord bless us! I never would have believed it! said the friar, startled out of his usual cynicism. 'An honest man!

Lord bless us! I never would have believed it!' said the friar, startled out of his usual cynicism. 'An honest man!

Eigenlijk geloof ik niets, en twijfel ik aan alles, zelfs aan U. Maar soms, wanneer ik denk dat Gij waarachtig leeft, dan denk ik, dat Gij Liefde zijt, en eenzaam, en dat, in zelfde wanhoop, Gij mij zoekt, zoals ik U.

Als u de mensheid hebt verlost, waarom mij dan niet - dat was toch in één moeite door gegaan?

Er is niets tegen geoudehoer, zolang er maar Gods zegen op rust, dat is wat ik altijd zeg.

Als ik me de wedergeboorte Gods voorstel, dan zie ik die niet in de mens. Het zou in een lam kunnen zijn, maar ik vind een ezel liever.

Ik ben een revist, veel en veel meer dan jij. Voor mij zijn de voorstelling en de idee vrijwel even belangrijk en reëel als de tastbare werkelijkheid.

We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid.

Don't let anyone tell you you aren't good enough. You are good enough; You are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it.