Quotes About Belief

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimulates every thing to itself as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.

God leads you to it and takes you through it.

Nothing in the world...is so powerful as an idea that tells people exactly what they want to hear.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

There is a green hill far away, outside a city wall, where our dear Lord was crucified who died to save us all. We may not know, we cannot tell, what pains he had to bear, but we believe it was for us he hung and suffered there. He died that we might be forgiven, he died to make us good, that we might go at last to heaven, saved by his precious blood.

No matter the truth, people see what they want to see..

These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.

He thought that, unlike most people, he had simply refused to let himself be brainwashed by newspapers, television, eschatologies, and philosophies into believing that "in spite of everything" this was an acceptable world simply because it existed. It would never become acceptable. Beloved maybe, acceptable never.

Opinion is worth nothing. Where is your evidence?" (Atalanta Worthington)

She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.

The problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the times there were simply "ways", none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on. He had always admired his wife's idealism, her belief that the world could be made better, could be made orderly, could perhaps even be made perfect. For the first time, he wondered if the same held true for him

She was always doing that, telling him stories. Prying open cracks for magic to seep in, making the world a place of possibility. After she left, he had stopped believing all those fantasies. Wispy, false dreams that disintegrated in the morning's light. Now it occurs to him that, perhaps, there might be truth in them after all.

There aren't any Shakers in Shaker Heights," he said. "They all died out. Didn't believe in sex. They just named the town after them.

He had always admired his wife's idealism, her belief that the world could be made better,

She was always doing that, telling him stories. Prying open cracks for magic to seep in, making the world a place of possibility.

Tinha aprendido que quando as pessoas estavam decididas a fazer algo que acreditavam ser uma boa ação, em geral era impossível dissuadi-las.