Quotes About Belief

I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians.

But God was never about power over us. It was about the power we possessed to either be good in His graces, or be selfish and wretched in His shadow. So to speak. Hell is being in that shadow. It's not in the next world, but this one, right now, anytime you choose not to do the right thing. As long as we're still here, not merely surviving but trying to do right by one another, then I believe that the heritage of God's light is still in us.

Or maybe, just maybe, he got it into his head that he was doing something good. Something righteous. Some of the worst things are done under righteous pretense.

The Muse is not real. Relying on the Muse is like leaning on a crutch made of playing cards.

Don't you dare say he's going to be a bandit. He'll be an angel.

People believe any horseshit shoved in their ears long as you say 'terrorist.

When you believe in magic, it is easy to see all the universe as evidence of it.)

God, he knew, helped those who helped themselves. But wasn't God also there to catch you if you fell?

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.' " Colleen's face scrunched up. "What Bible passage is that?" "It's not the Bible, it's Isaac Asimov.

everyone likes to be sold easy promises, don't they?

She didn't believe that. Didn't agree with it. But intrusive thoughts were trespassers. You didn't invite them in. But they broke in, anyway, whether they were true or false.

Past the crucifix on the wall with the poor, scary man named Jesus who hangs there, bleeding.

You need to march your doubt out into a field and put a .357 round in the back of its head. Let its death soak into the earth, grow the wheat, make bread from its blood. Because, for real, fuck doubt. Fuck doubt right in its wax-clogged ear.

Lies are like leashes. Tug them just so, and all who believe them will comply.)

If you're being skewered by a unicorn, the secret is: tell the unicorn he doesn't exist. If you do that, he'll disappear in a puff of Lucky Charms cereal. That's true. That's fact. Same thing goes for writer's block.

They couldn't invent answers and assume they were true because they hadn't yet disproved them.

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

Itaque inter omnis omnium gentium summa constat; omnibus enim innatum est et in animo quasi insculptum esse deos.

We need to pray with full trust and assurance that God wants to answer prayers that are prayed in alignment with His Word and will for our lives.

Father God, I thank you that your eyes are upon me today as I pray and that your ears are attentive and open to my prayers. I believe that you hear me.

one of them asked, "Is there anything too hard for God?

There are times in our life when we don't know the direct outcome of our prayers, and the enemy wants us to think that God didn't hear us or didn't care. This is never the case, of course, even if we don't see immediate answers or the outcomes we anticipate.

Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.

Each of us shapes our stories so they make sense of who we think we are.