Quotes About Belief

What he liked about his brother, he said, is that he made people become what they didn't think they could become. He twisted something in their hearts. Gave them new places to go. Even dead, he'd still do that. His brother believed that the space for God was one of the last great frontiers: men and women could do all sorts of things but the real mystery would always lie in a different beyond. He would just fling the ashes and let them settle where they wanted.

What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday.

What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday. The comfort he got from the hard, cold truth—the filth, the war, the poverty—was that life could be capable of small beauties.

I'm not God. --Then find someone who is, man.

She had formed a distrust of men who carried Bibles. It seemed to her that they believed their own voices were somehow embedded there.

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was non ov those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

So, leave the cynics be. Out-cynic them. Step into that elsewhere. Believe that your story is bigger than yourself. In

Rami said to the audience that all walls were destined to fall, no matter what. He was not so naïve, though, to believe that more would not be built. It was a world of walls. Still, it was his job to insert a crack in the one most visible to him.

I want whatever God has for me!

He is in control, but He will give us what we ask for. If all of this was God's will, then we wouldn't have to pray for His will to be done.

Maybe these bad things are good things because they build our faith for what is to come.

And I told myself that lie, all the way to my home.

You give up on what you need to be doing because you forget that you're worth it. This is why most people aren't leading exemplary lives...You have to believe in yourself so much that you're willing to do what's uncomfortable, time-consuming, inconvenient, and on occasion seemingly impossible. When you don't believe in yourself this much, pretend.

Sometimes you'll hear, 'People don't change.' This is true more often than it ought to be, but listen again: 'People don't change.' It says 'don't,' not 'can't.' (316)

When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319)

Frank pitied anyone naïve enough to believe they could predict with certainty how another human being would act.

That is the one eternal education; to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."11

Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.

fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes

The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.

Varying this, we could say that most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of prisoners.

The prisoner who had lost faith in the future—his future—was doomed. With his loss of belief in the future, he also lost his spiritual hold; he let himself decline and became subject to mental and physical decay.