Quotes About Belief

What the Zamperinis were experiencing wasn't denial, and it wasn't hope. It was belief.

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

some men may be wired for optimism, others for doubt.

I can't prove to you that there is a God, I just know. All this suffering has to have a reason.

Never bet your money on another man's game.

Trust the soul above all things, for it is made by the Divine hand and woven with threads of truth, eternity, and light.

I always love the way everyone else seems to know what God is thinking. To me, it's more of a mystery.

I began to understand that dancing well had everything to do with believing you could. Like those dreams of flying- dipping gracefully through the air in your weightless body- if in your sleep, you stopped to think about it for more than half a second, you'd crash like a sack of dead ducks onto the roof of a church.

Believable, chronological, but so quickly erased that it only serves to prove that the universe is made of curving, warping space.

The same unquestioning certainty given to English rain and Irish trouble.

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

When it came down to it, Sandy didn't have much use for words because so many of the ones he had heard over his life had been lies.

Was I doing the right thing? Or being stupid for not following Liam's plan? Only time would tell. For now, I had to believe that whatever move kept Liam safe was not only the right solution, but the only solution.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

once she had believed the world could become new again, that the right people in the right place could make up any rules they wanted. And none of this was true. They had all paid the price. And really, where was the moment that should have happened differently? Which was the choice that had set all the others in motion? And would a different choice have been the right one?

I believe that there is a perfect someone for everyone, and I know that you still believe that too. There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn't all that perfect," he added.

Hope is a funny thing when you think about it. It's something you always have. You just have to believe you do.

Wait, you mean she's trying to get you and me together? No, she can't be serious." "I'm afraid so. Once she and Dad return from their trip to Spain I'll break the tragic news that sadly you and I were not to be." "You can say that again. Never. Not in a million years." Ward's dark brows rose. "My mother believes I'm a catch." "A flaw common to many fond mothers, I'm sure.

He's resigned himself to the belief that the best a person can do is to make one's life worth dying for.

Tell ya what I'm gonna do, see. I'm not going to hope. Now, you don't either. Don't hope your life will get better. Just make it so. Don't hope you are able to handle this baby. Just do it. Just be glad, just move fast, just do what you need to do. But for god's sake, don't hope. Just be...Just be...

I have come to understand god as a mystery for whom it is a privilege to seek or even deny, rather than as one for whom it is my obligation to perform.

Apiádate, Dios mío -le ruego a una divinidad en la que nunca he creído ni creo-. No me obligues a amar a quien no me ama. Mándame si quieres las otras Siete Plagas, pero de esa, y de este intolerable olor a mortecino que me envuelve, exonérame por caridad, amén

Ella siempre dijo que él iba a volver, sabiendo que no era verdad. Yo lo repetía, pero a diferencia de ella, yo estaba segura de que iba a ser verdad.»