Quotes About Belief

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

Three stages of truth for scientists: (1) It's not true. (2) If it is true, it's not very important. (3) We knew it all along.

Ik zal met mijn verstand niet kunnen begrijpen waarom ik bid en toch zal ik blijven bidden.

But now everything will be different. It is nonsense to believe that life will not allow it, that the past will not allow it. I must struggle to live a better life, a far better life.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

Tuhan tahu, tapi menunggu .....

He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must live for something, he would not live. If he does not see and recognize the illusory nature of the finite, he believes in the finite; if he understands the illusory nature of the finite, he must believe in the infinite. Without faith he cannot live.

If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live

But if you believe in coincidence, you probably shouldn't be a cop.

CHILDREN FIRST. GROW WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED. SUCCESS COMES IN CANS, NOT CANNOTS.

Mila punched me in the arm. Don't get goofy on me, Jigsaw! Ghosts are not real. And they don't write books! I'll say this for Mila. She's got a pretty good right hand. My arm ached for the rest of the day.

Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing.

Don't you believe in death?" I yelled at him. "No," he answers, "and I don't believe in time either...

We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have.

Cully thought. And she sounded absolutely convinced of everything she said. You see, Augusta went on, I've been sent here by the Christian Ladies Temperance Society. I'm bringing their message to Abilene. Joshua and Sister Lorraine stared in surprise.