Quotes About Belief

The Indians, they don't reveal nothin less they have a reason behind it. They believe a feller that shares, gives away some of his power.

Because, again, very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.

After all, you have grown accustomed to having an authority in your life to define reality, and without that external direction you feel confused and lost.

In a world where the people are numbed and distracted, the only thing that sells is the unbelievable.

Every human being . . . illustrates with their lives how he or she thinks a human being is supposed to live.

The surest plan to make a Man Is, think him so.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

Mr. Lincoln's faith in God was qualified by a very well-founded distrust of the wisdom of man.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

You're so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently.

there comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are written down have any possibility of being real.

He had his life—it was not worth much—not like a life that, though ended, had truly been something. If I had had courage, he thought, if I had had faith. We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one—we are left with no companion save God. In whom we do not believe. Who we know does not exist.

It's just that it's hard to believe in greatness...

In the end, writing is like a prison, an island from which you will never be released but which is a kind of paradise: the solitude, the thoughts, the incredible joy of putting into words the essence of what you for the moment understand and with your whole heart want to believe.

We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one—we are left with no companion save God. In whom we do not believe. Who we know does not exist.

Do you know what Krishnamurti says? Consciously or unconsciously, we are all completely selfish, and as long as we get what we want, we believe everything is all right.

The woman squeezed Erin's hand in a surprisingly firm way. "Let me tell you a little something. The two best prayers are 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' Not hard to remember, is it?

You stupid chick ... nun ... whatever. I'm a tenth-degree black belt in Korean Karate!"  "But you don't have the power of God, you uncircumcised philistine!

To be quite honest with you, I haven't known many Christians as articulate as you.

the mind does not distinguish between reality and what is vividly imagined. It puts all of that stimuli to work in shaping your reality and your future. So it's a good idea to think right.

could possibly be.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Do you think I'm a bad person?" "It doesn't sound like you have enough time in your life to be a bad person." "Then why is God doing this to me?" "God isn't doing this to you. There's a lot of evil out there. When it touches people, they get hurt. No one's immune, not even good people like you.

My mother, for instance, thought-or rather, knew-that it was dangerous to drive an automobile without gasoline: it fried the valves, or something. 'Now don't you dare drive all over town without gasoline!' she would say to us when we started off (31).