Quotes About Belief

Some people are very unfulfilled. In consequence they write passionately good romance because they believe that they could still find happiness. Emily Bronte was not a fulfilled woman but the passion she felt went into Wuthering Heights.

I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

What makes it unbearable is your mistaken belief that it can be cured.

And perhaps it is not too beautiful a thing to believe in this redeemed world, that, as the babe turns to his mother though he has no power to say her name, as the flowers turn to the sun, so the hearts of the children turn to their Saviour and God with unconscious delight and trust. Nursery

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

But only this-that people who are utterly ignorant will believe anything-which you certainly knew before.

Will you excuse us all," [Jeff] said, "if we admit that we find it hard to believe? There is no such-possibility-in the rest of the world." Have you no kind of life where [asexual reproduction] is possible?" asked Zava. "Why, yes-some low forms, of course." "How low-or how high, rather?

If a given idea has been held in the human mind for many generations, as almost all our common ideas have, it takes sincere and continued effort to remove it; and if it is one of the oldest we have in stock, one of the big, common, unquestioned world ideas, vast is the labor of those who seek to change it.

You see he does not believe I am sick!

They were much surprised that we were still burying—asked our reasons for it, and were much dissatisfied with what we gave. We told them of the belief in the resurrection of the body, and they asked if our God was not able to resurrect from ashes as from long corruption. We told them of how people thought it repugnant to have their loved ones burn, and they asked if it was less repugnant to have them decay. They were inconveniently reasonable, those women.

She returned to her mantra: something would happen, something would turn up, it always had before, it would again.

Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.

I'm quite hardcore on this. I think every psychic and medium in this country belongs in prison. Even the ones demented enough to believe in what they're doing. In fact, especially them. Give them windowless cells and make them crap in buckets.

Gregory Peck was one of those few great actors of generosity, humor, toughness and spirit. From our fight scene in The Big Country (1958) to his willingness to stand up for what he believed personally, Gregory Peck faced life's challenges with great vigor and courage.

No, when the herd wanted to take refuge in an idea, it preferred to be blind to that idea's opposite.

men don't allow themselves to be killed for their interest, they allow themselves to be killed for their passion

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?

To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.

What is the meaning of Resurrection? ...is it not the exorcism of crippling unbelief, which renders us dead in life (Mark 9:22) rather than alive in our dying (8:35)?

We lie to each other all the time, remember?' she said with an amused smile. 'Tell me,' Archie said, 'and I'll believe you.

We lie to each other all the time. Whatever we say, it doesn't mean anything." "I'll believe you," she said.

Love. Not the kind you see in the movies or hear about on the radio. The real kind. The kind that gets beaten down and bloody, yet perseveres. The kind that hopes even when hope seems foolish. The kind that can forgives. The kind that believes in healing. The kind that can sit in silence and feel renewed. The real kind of love. It's rare and we have it..