Quotes About Belief

Pessimist, are you?" "I'm a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions.

Whether or not I wake up . . . I'll have a new heart.

You believe in things you cannot see and speak a language that only hearts know.

I know I'm not alone and I don't walk alone. That I won't. When the thin whisper of a veil between what I can't see and what I can is pulled back and for one brief second I get a glimpse of what will be. Where the words 'might' and 'hope' intersect.

sometimes it's hard to see what could be, what we hope for, through the hurting part of what is, 'cause sometimes stuff hurts so much that we can't see nothing. But then sometimes what we hope for, well, seems like if we hope it long enough, hard enough, deep enough, it becomes what it.

I quit screaming at God a long time ago, 'cause I reckon he knows a thing or two about hurt.

He tapped me gently in the chest. "And neither are you. So, if your mind is telling you that God slipped up and might have made one giant mistake when it comes to you, you remember the firefly's butt.

Many times in our lives, we act like He's still dead. But several times today, we've testified that He's not. So which is it? Why say one thing with your mouth and yet live another with your life? If He's alive, act like it. He either is or He isn't. You can't be half-alive.

five ways of "knowing": personal experience, revelation, empirical evidence, logic, and hearsay. Given those methods of knowing something, I know this—and I'd stake my life on it: William "Liam" McFarland willingly took the fall for something he didn't do. I have lived my entire life in a chasm, pulled between two polar tensions.

sold into trafficking by foster parents before puberty. While she still believed the tooth fairy was real.

People believe what they read until someone prints something that contradicts it. Then they believe both.

or does, he still can." He tapped the lid of the jar. "If God can make a firefly's butt light up like a star, then anything is possible.

Greatest trick ever played on mankind is that somewhere, somebody sold us a bill of goods convincing us that evil ain't real." I

we wrestle and search. But regardless of where we search and how we try to answer the question or what we ingest, inject, or swallow to numb the nagging, only the Father gets to tell us who we are. Period.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a host of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus.

When you boil it down," he said, holding out his hand and counting with his fingers, "all we got left, all anybody's got, is faith . . . and hope . . . and love." He looked at his three fingers. "And we all gonna make it. All three of us.

And neither are you. So, if your mind is telling you that God slipped up and might have made one giant mistake when it comes to you, you remember the firefly's butt." The

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I will not let the fear of what might be rob me of the promise of what can.

The curious part was this: most students said that they knew that social life would be more important to their happiness than architecture, yet they still put greater weight on physical features. This is the standard mis-weighing of extrinsic and intrinsic values: we may tell each other that experiences are more important than things, but we constantly make choices as though we didn't believe

People can't be changed by writ or transformed by court decree.

PURPOSE A major stream of human accomplishment is fostered by a culture in which the most talented people believe that life has a purpose and that the function of life is to fulfill that purpose.

A major stream of human accomplishment is fostered by a culture that encourages the belief that individuals can act efficaciously as individuals, and enables them to do so.

it is said that roosters think the sun rises because they crow. Politicians are much the same.