Quotes About Belief

The point is that the Party has lost the power to control what the Chinese people believe.

Technocrats evidently believe that to build competitive enterprises they must first eliminate competition.

There are many things which cannot be imagined," the Chinese say, "but there is nothing which may not happen.

Don't part with your illusions," said Mark Twain. "When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

When you believe that you are the only path to progress, the choice is easy to make. And when they make that choice, their consciences will be clear

Nobody got me out," Nellie replied. "They just let me go. They think I'm a deranged Jonah Wizard fan. Apparently, the hotel's full of them. A couple of idiots actually jumped off the front balcony. Can you picture that?" "In Technicolor," Amy said bitterly. "That low-down KGB reject!" Dan fumed. "I can't believe she cheated me–right when I was in the middle of cheating her!

We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms, or our faith or lack of faith, but only with what God has said

Before we can do anything, we must be able to imagine it.

Let go of our so-often-denied fear of being found unlovable.

the faithholder is his faith. He and it make, not two, but a single thing. Since he and it are one, there's no way to take it from him. That makes him a very powerful opponent. In fact, it makes him an unconquerable opponent; since even death can't touch him in his most important part.

the contest that's now shaping up can only be won by those who believe in the future if they work and struggle as one single people.

We wouldn't be capable of hope, if hope had no meaning.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god; it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg"—

When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football.

That is, nobody but angels: they are always on deck when there is a miracle to the fore...

It is a beautiful, a bless'd belief, That the beloved dead, grown angels, watch The dear ones left behind...

Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence.

Angels will not disintegrate with logic, but they are more likely to fly for those who believe.

...for so a wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

Thus, the vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic about the bilge when a group of astronomers denounce it.

Even when the future's not certain, our hearts can still be certain — of love and happiness and all that's good.

Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things.

...poetry is not greatly concerned with what a man thinks, but with what is so imbedded in his nature that it never occurs to him to question it: not a matter of which idea he holds, but of the depth at which he holds it.

Belief stains darker, imprints deeper than truth.