Quotes About Belief

Jennifer, some people is suppose' to have only what other people let them have.' Lord God, her age and white and believing somet'ing like that.

Many years back I gave up all claim to a rational view of the world and even avoided people who believed that the laws of physics and causality have any application when it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fingers that could write the Shakespearean sonnets.

I could have written the entire incident off, but any time three people report a scream, they're calling not about a sound but about a memory that lives in the collective unconscious, one that goes back to the cave. When we are alarmed to the degree that we have to tell others about it, we're dipping into a primal knowledge about the darker potential of the gene pool. Or at least this has always been my belief.

Advice might be cheap, but there is nothing facile about the faith of those to whom we give it.

No, I'm a coonass, my religion is shaky, and I've never hit the juice.

I can't really say." "It amounts to believing others when they tell you you're a good fellow. Give that some thought.

I believed Jimmy had an enormous capacity for either good or evil, and that his spirit was as capricious as a wind vane. F. Scott Fitzgerald once said no one could understand America without understanding the graves of Shiloh. I think the same could have been said of Jimmy Nightingale.

I still wanted to believe George Orwell's admonition that people are always better than we think they are.

Administrators don't believe in conspiracies. If they did, they'd have to resign their jobs. That

I still couldn't imagine that she was really, truly pregnant; maybe this was an hysterical pregnancy. But Sarah was never hysterical. Enthusiastic, yes, ironic on occasion. I couldn't imagine a doctor saying, No, it's just an ironic pregnancy.

To a snail, a duck is a vengeful god.

Book knew, however, that God provided. It might not always seem as though He did. Indeed, to the untrained eye it sometimes looked as though the Lord's methods were just plain berserk. But in the end, all said and done, He always came through. It was a cornerstone of Book's belief, the rock he had rebuilt his life upon.

Cynicism is simply realism with a veneer of irony.

Preacher," said Temperance, "I don't hold much with religion." "Few do, and of those who profess faith, some take it far too seriously and others consider it a license to misbehave.

Mankind is inherently inclined towards cooperation, Holmes said. It is how we create societies and moral consensus. We want to agree with one another, on the whole. Thus, if one of us insists a certain thing is true, and maintains his standpoint in the face of all opposition, others will eventually come around to his way of thinking.

Qui-Gon believes that the boy—Anakin is his name—stands at the center of a vergence in the Force, and believes further that his finding him was the will of the Force.

What the ancients called Bogan, as separate from Ashla.

show my trust in others in order to build their trust in me.

Only credibility earns commitment.

The Kouzes-Posner First Law of Leadership: If you don't believe in the messenger, you won't believe the message. Leaders

Above all else, people must be able to believe in their leaders. They must believe that your word can be trusted, that you are personally passionate and enthusiastic about the work that you're doing, and that you have the necessary knowledge and skill to lead.

People commit to causes, not to plans.

It's a virtuous circle: you believe in your constituents' abilities; your favorable expectations cause you to be more positive in your actions; and those encouraging behaviors produce better results, reinforcing your belief that people can do it. Another virtuous circle begins as people see that they are capable of extraordinary performance, they develop that expectation of themselves.

Why would you want to follow someone if you suspected that they were lying or trying to trick you? Honesty is the basis of trust and you have to believe that what the leader speaks or knows is true." Of