Quotes About Belief

Can you just trust in our love, without asking me to prove it every single second?

Lauren Myracle

It's a program called "Angels Among Us," she said. "I don't have to get a degree or anything.

You've got this light about you. You make people feel special like maybe there's a light in them too.

You're allowed to have thoughts, she reminded herself. Just because others might scoff, that doesn't mean you won't anymore.

That's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.

In the time of Philotimus, a notable Greek physician several centuries BCE, sufferers complaining of a light head were instructed to wear a lead helmet in hopes of a cure. Chrysippus of Cnidus, a contemporary, believed that people with depression should eat more cauliflower while carefully avoiding basil because it could incite someone to insanity.

We are here making myths that are, at the same time, absolutely true.

To say I believe time is fluid, and so are the boundaries between human beings, the border separating helper from the one who hurts always blurry.

Always remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

It does not manifest so that you can believe in it. You believe in it so that it can manifest.

When they turned over the sand clocks, they recited psalms or prayers invoking divine guidance for a safe voyage.

even if he believed he was entitled to do so under his own contract with King Charles.

Vasco da Gama came to believe that he had been inadequately rewarded for his service to the crown.

according to Jewish law. Nevertheless, the family considered itself Christian

Ferdinand Magellan never thought of himself as anything other than a devout Catholic.

Few among them had confidence that Magellan could lead them to the edge of the world and beyond

have no laws or faith, and live according to nature. They do not recognize the immortality of the soul

Magellan believed that he could do what the Genoese navigator had claimed to do but had never actually accomplished:

O tenggerrismo (a adoração do céu) era, acima de tudo, uma crença unificadora, que inspirava os Mongóis a conquistar tudo o que existisse abaixo do céu – o que significava, na prática, todos os cantos do mundo. Ao levarem a cabo este seu mandato, os Mongóis tornaram-se os percursores da globalização, procurando ligar o mundo inteiro. Eram conquistadores e saqueadores, mas, mais do que isso, eram unificadores.

She placed her faith in God, not in superstitions about comets.

Magellan's conception of the world he planned to explore was fatally inaccurate.

You do not need to have faith that oxygen is in the air. You simply breathe normally. The oxygen is in you and around you. You cannot see it, but you can breathe it. You know it exists. You do not need faith in oxygen to breathe. In this exact way, you have a direct connection to Ultimate Reality.