Quotes About Belief

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.

Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.

There are two kinds of people: eaters and bakers. Eaters think the world is a zero-sum game: what someone else eats, they cannot eat. Bakers do not believe that the world is a zero-sum game because they can bake more and bigger pies.

I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun.

Poltergeist activity is so inherently improbable that most rational people simply cannot believe it. And when they see it and have to believe it, they find it very hard to convince anybody else that it really happens.

You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.

you were told the accumulated wisdom of generations who had suffered to acquire their knowledge, and you simply did not believe it. Those difficult rules might be right for other people, but as for yourself, you were going to get what you wanted. You were the center of your own universe and intended to have supremacy in it

If I had learned one thing from Homer over the years, it was that just because you couldn't quite see your way out of a difficulty, that didn't mean a way out didn't exist.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

Believe me, I loved you all. Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you All.

And the people believe, because Julian lets them believe... he does not force, suggest, tease, prod -- he lets them believe, he draws margins over which he knows their minds can jump, he unscrews hinges on all the doors.

Akkor változik meg a rendszer, amikor mások kezdenek el hazudni, mint akiket megszoktunk.

Nemcsak az volt tévedés, amiben hittünk valaha, de az is, amiben valaha hinni fogunk.

Évekig rohangáltak az emberek – szólalt meg Szymanowski –, ki a halálból, be a halálba, egyik hitb?l a másikba, h?siesen, nagyszer?en, eszel?sen, bután, most aztán nincs hova rohanniuk, a rohanás mégis megmaradt valahol.

she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.

Spring!' thought Miss Maszkerádi. 'You are an idiot. I just don't believe you!

Una mayoría abrumadora de mexicanos cree con fe de carbonero que la propiedad pública del petróleo o el monopolio gubernamental de la energía eléctrica son pilares de la integridad nacional, ejes de la nación y la nacionalidad. Es la convicción, por ejemplo, del gobierno electo el 1 de julio de 2018.

Acaso la juventud es sólo eso: un trance de creer, un asentimiento a la promesa. Entonces todo es una promesa que el mundo ocupa luego con su verdad.

sin ti no existe un mundo mejor.

existe," he says. God exists.

It beings with fear, passion begins with a fear. Fear is the trembling of faith. One cannot have faith without being afraid. One cannot have faith, no human being. Being human is that: to have faith that's been fractured then stuck back together.

To us this ladder has a descending movement, because the ascent , which evokes effort and difficulty, is toward the bottom. I say ascent downward because we ordinarily believe the descent is easy. The writers I love are descenders , explorers of the lowest and deepest.

Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

Since Logic derives from postulates, it never has, and never will, change a postulate. And a religious belief is a system of postulates ... so how can a man fight a native superstition with logic? Or anything else ...?