Quotes About Belief

his unguarded face is startlingly handsome; the truth is that I still can't believe a hot, smart, kind man loves me back.

I believed that a seventeen-minute critique was an act of love, and the truth is that I still do, but the difference between who I was then and who I am now is that now I never assume that anyone I encounter shares my opinion about anything.

And now I knew myself to be generous with encouragement only when I either did not want the thing the other person sought of did not believe the person would really get it.

I take it you don't believe in love at first sight.' 'Does anyone over the age of thirteen? Do you?' 'I don't, no,' Darcy said. 'But I don't rule out for others what I haven't experienced first hand.

She told me that we'd never know if he'd taken too much medicine by mistake or on purpose but that really there wasn't much of a difference because even if he'd taken too much on purpose, it had been because he'd believed more medicine would make him feel better.

People to whom a terrible thing has never happened trust fate, the notion that what's meant to be, will be. The rest of us know better.

Sure, I believed the worst of myself but - not really. I was always waiting to be proven wrong.

we create our own reality—that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe.

And I don't know if you've heard this, but there's something called the Danny Horst Rule. And the amazing thing is, I'm Danny Horst. Touché. Chuckles, you and Noah are the ones who decide if it matters. It doesn't seem like it matters to him so that just leaves you. When you put it like that, it almost makes me sound like a self-sabotaging asshat. I'm not going to say the rule doesn't exist, but it's like Santa Claus. It's only real if you believe in it.

It's not about right belief; it's about right practice.

We all live with this terrible, heartbreaking hypocrisy in Christianity, when the teaching finally leaves us in th dust. How do we die before we die? How do we love our neighbors as ourselves? How do we bridge the gap between what we believe and what we can actually live?

It is the truth that sets us free, and it is the truth that we must run with in order to continue our race in freedom.

If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed (John 8:36).

It has been observed that none are free indeed but those whom Christ makes free.

The last and greatest lesson that the soul has to learn is the fact that God and God alone, is enough for all its needs. This is the lesson that all His dealings with us are meant to teach; and this is the crowning discovery of our whole Christian life. God is enough![1] HANNAH WHITALL SMITH

How can something get you thinking the wrong way, if you know how to think the right way?' Sammy asked.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion.

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say 'if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,' we might believe them; but were they to cry 'if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,' we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific.

Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Perhaps you're a slave to your own idea of yourself.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

No creo en el mundo, ni en el dinero, ni en el progreso, ni en el futuro de nuestra civilización. Si es que la humanidad tiene un futuro, tendrá que hacerse muy diferente de como es ahora.