Quotes About Belief

you're told a lie often enough, that lie becomes not the truth, but a truth you can come to believe. However

All paths lead to God, and it doesn't matter if you call him Jehovah, Allah, Buddha, or even if you believe that he is a she.

Blind faith isn't always a good thing.

what's real doesn't always matter. What people think has been done to them can be just as serious as what really happened.

Lord knows---and we both know --- that too many wrongs have been committed in the name of religion. ... But you're not here in the name of religion. Religion is an organization. Faith is within. ... Catholic, cattolico--- it means universal. Too often we forget that.

There are angels on the tree?" "Ah, because we all pray there are really angels watching over us, don't we?

Faith is belief in the unseen. If you have any kind of faith, you already believe in the unseen.

if we feel guilt, if we believe it in our own minds, that's what's true to us.

Have lunch, have coffee, and continue to work hard on the things that won't dry up and blow away: Your health, your career, your little art projects or poems or essays, your odd new half-interests, the complicated folds of your sensitivity and your darkness, and your belief in a world that wants you to be happy.

Truly believing that my ideas and words have a right to be taken seriously. And if I believed enough in my talents years ago to own them, who knows what I could've created?

You will find love. Believe me. But in order to find it, I think you have to prepare yourself for a life alone and be at peace with that. It's a real tightrope walk. I get it. But you won't tell tepid to fuck off if you don't believe in your heart that you will rock it out one way or another.

Can a girl find true love if she doesn't believe it exists?

The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help. That is, only for one who feels infinite anguish.

Yes I don't love you God because I sit in a world where all our love is already shared.

it feels as if this big tree must have a direct connection to whoever is in charge.

When you write, you believe in something no one else can see. You spend lots of time committed to a project for which there are no assurances, no guarantees. Being a writer subjects you to the same doubts, the same unpopularity, the same nagging questions that believers struggle with. Writing is communing with the unseen…

I know how to wait for clarity to emerge from chaos. I know what it is to trust in the power of the unseen.

You don't have to have clarity," he said, "to take a clear position.

spoken by Brigid** "The divine endeavors to course through all peoples and religions, Decius. It is only in Christianity that it has best found its home.

there is hope in maybe. Maybe. Such a tiny word. Such a powerful word.

And as we round the bend toward Ivy Cottage, he tugs my braid just the way he always has ever since I was six, and then he reaches down and takes my hand. Maybe sometimes dreams really do come true.

Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead.

Hope. Such a tiny word. Such a powerful word.

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.