Quotes About Belief

that "God" can be known and described only in direct reference to this God's acts.

Many people, who study paranormal or supernatural phenomena, believe that children are sensitive to the spirit world.

As children, when we are under the age of five, we tend to believe everything exists. We are open to all possibilities. For whatever reason, children, as well as older people and those who are nearing the time to pass on from this world, seem to be able to see and communicate with spirits or beings from the other side of life. I have

Maybe, as children, we are open to the spirit world, and see things adults or non-sensitive people don't see. Since children are not able to distinguish things or spirits from another reality, from beings in our world, perhaps they believe their invisible playmates are

An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Like her creator, Hattie is a terminal optimist; what else is there to say?

There is power in words. As workers of magick, we must believe this if we believe anything.

Femella can talk to creatures living and nonliving. She communes with the wee folk and the elfin. She knows the secrets of the untamed places. She believes, and because she believes, she can see.

I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.

A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.

Every madman thinks all other men mad.

A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle.

God will be present, whether asked or not.

But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

All three sons believed they had the right ring, but there was no proof they were right. But all three rings were precious and beautiful, because they came from the father, and the father loved all three sons.

I know God can't answer every prayers exactly the way you want Him to. But I couldn't help thinking that He hadn't been doing very well by me lately. Even so, I prayed. It wasn't a proper prayer, just a cry for help, but I felt He was listening.

If you're preaching, I've already got religion. And if you're selling, I ain't buying--unless you've got binoculars. I could use some new binoculars.

That's because you don't believe in this, and you don't -" I cut him off as I screamed. "Don't say it again! I care!" "But not enough," he said screaming back… and in a voice that was much quieter, more concluding, more condemning, and more disgusted, "Not enough.

People don't tend to work that way. We have our opinion and we filter information into a paradigm that supports it.

I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count

Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." —GOETHE

These are the four magical questions to help you decide whether you'd rather act on your fear or choose your faith.   1.  What am I afraid of?   2.  Is my fear realistic?   3.  Can I actually control the situation?   4.  Is it worth the intimacy it would cost me to try to control?