Quotes About Belief

When I reach a place where I have implicit confidence in God's ability to manage not only the affairs of the world but also mine, as I entrust them to Him, I will have found the place of rest.

When my little world is falling apart and the dream castles of my ambitions and hopes crumble into ruins, can I honestly declare, "Surely—yes, surely—goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life"?

Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.

Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas.

Joe has sense enough to know He is a god. So many gods don't know.

Hold onto your dreams

Gather up In the arms of your love— Those who expect No love from above.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

I think I'm coming up on the ess curve, so I'm going to hang up and concentrate on driving. In the snow. Which wasn't supposed to happen until tomorrow afternoon. Gee, Kels, I didn't know you believed in the weatherman. Do you still believe in Santa and the Tooth Fairy, too? How about the Easter Bunny? All right. Point taken.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.

Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much idiocy exposed to the light of judgment or ridicule, too much vanity sacrificed to the fires of efficiency. Such a catastrophe obviously would threaten the American way of life, to say nothing of the belief in free markets.

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.

You can trust me." "Trust you? I hardly know you." The protect sounded weak, despite the force with which she pushed it past her lips. "You really want me to believe you feel that way? Because I've been trying to convince myself that's how I feel about you, and it's not working. Not one damned bit.

Trust is earned.

Still amazes me that people spend more time researching a new vehicle than they do the religion they entrust their souls to.

I'll always be here for you. I'll wait as long as it takes." He locked his eyes with her. "You were always the one.

What else would they be?" "No idea." Arik shrugged … "Aliens, mabye?" "Aliens." Thanatos's voice was flat, disbelieving. "Your scepticism is funny, coming from one of the Four fucking Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Because only a fool believes everything they read or are told.

When you can't be sure of anything else in this crapped-on world, you have to be sure of yourself.

I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in.