Quotes About Belief

Now," said the young man, stooping gravely over his book of bills, "if you can assure me that I really can buy this kind of pious, and that it will be set down to my account in the book up above, as something belonging to me, I wouldn't care if I did go a little extra for it. How d'ye say?" "Wal, raily, I can't do that," said the trader. "I'm a thinkin that every man'll have to hang on his own hook, in them ar quarters.

Yet some striking exceptions there are among us, from the fact that the negro is naturally more impressible to religious sentiment than the white.

There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves when it comes to practice.

Well, then, I will die!" said Tom. "Spin it out as long as they can, they can't help my dying, some time!—and, after that, they can't do no more. I'm clar, I'm set! I know the Lord'll help me, and bring me through.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. The Christian is composed by the belief of a wise, all-ruling Father, whose presence fills the void unknown with light and order; but to the man who has dethroned God, the spirit-land is, indeed, in the words of the Hebrew poet, "a land of darkness and the shadow of death," without any order, where the light is as darkness. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.

But I believe that all the trying in the world to benefit a child, and all the substantial favors you can do them, will never excite one emotion of gratitude, while that feeling of repugnance remains in the heart;—it's a queer kind of a fact,—but so it is.

Augustine, sometimes I think you are not far from the kingdom," said Miss Ophelia, laying down her knitting, and looking anxiously at her cousin. "Thank you for your good opinion; but it's up and down with me,—up to heaven's gate in theory, down in earth's dust in practice.

I hate reasoning, John - especially reasoning on such subjects. There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe it yourselves, when it comes to practice.

Mas'r," said Tom, "I know ye can do dreadful things; but,"—he stretched himself upward and clasped his hands,—"but, after ye've killed the body, there an't no more ye can do. And O, there's all ETERNITY to come, after that!

if you only trust in God, and try to do right, he'll deliver you.

there'll be the same God there Chloe that there is here

That happy ending business - it's all a bit contrived. I don't ever believe it." How unromantic. It wasn't true either. The truth was, Elle wanted to believe in happy ever after, more than anything. But to admit it would be to discount what she knew to be the real facts of life. So she didn't know how to admit that she longed, secretly, to have her perspective changed, by something or someone, she didn't know which.

Stand up for what you believe with strength and grace and the barriers will begin to fall away. Harriet Green

what we believe is most shameful and unique about ourselves is often what is most human and universal

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

God didn't put me on this street to provide disability awareness training to everyone who happens by. In fact, no god put anyone anywhere for any reason, if you want to know.

'Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, "I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me," and he always did.

If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.

Those who live with faith have a much better road, a much happier life.

If I have the choice to pray and trust God--or the choice not to pray or trust Him--I'm going to pray and trust. Faith is a choice. And my journey has proved that faith in God is always the right choice.

In Georgia to suspect was to believe, and the only hand you could really trust was that of your enemy because you knew it held a dagger.

The Christian mind is the prerequisite of Christian thinking, and Christian thinking is the prerequisite for Christian action.

The collision between a Christian mind and a solidly earthbound culture ought to be a violent one.