Quotes About Belief

I'd say ye can't know what code ye live by until it's tested.

I think about the destructiveness of desire: of wanting something unrealistic, of believing in the possibility of rescue. This stint in Boston only confirms my belief that there is no cure for what ails me. No matter how long I hold a stick with fluttering rags above my head, no trawler in the distance will be coming to my rescue.

Over the years, certain stories in the history of a family take hold. They're passed from generation to generation, gaining substance and meaning along the way. You have to learn to sift through them, separating fact from conjecture, the likely from the implausible. Here is what I know: Sometimes the least believable stories are the true ones.

You must also keep your faith in God to guide you forward if the way is not clear. Whether the journey is long or short, He will help you as long as you place your trust in Him.

The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

Do you believe in fate?" I ask. "What's that again?" "That everything is decided. You're just—you know—living it out.

The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance

Sometimes the least believable stories are the true ones. 1896–1900 My mother drapes a wrung-out cloth across my forehead.

Sometimes the least believable stories are the true ones.

Whether your journey is long or short, He will help you as long as you place your trust in Him.

Over the years, certain stories in the history of family take hold. They're passes from generation to generation, gaining substance and meaning along the way. You have to learn to sift through them, separating fact from conjecture, the likely form the implausible. Here is what I know: Sometimes the least believable stories are the true ones.

Only the good Lord knows what's going to happen, and He ain't telling.

Dina listens to conservative talk radio, belongs to a fundamentalist Christian church, and has a "Guns don't kill people—abortion clinics do" bumper sticker on her car.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason—to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.

All the air power in the world was of little use when what they were really fighting was an ideology, not a conventional army. Our

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

I say, frankly, Looloo, that I believed that I could remold her life and with my wife and children make a little nucleus of splendid men and women to work for the future. That was, is, my only dream, my life hope: for I am only a dreamer in realities. I want you to understand me, Looloo: she did not even try to.

When Fate held out her hand, he made it a rule to take that hand with whatever it held, for Fate always had a lesson for him, just as every book that fell on its face open, and every scrap of muddy newsprint blowing in the wind and even every shop sign might hold a message for him, because the Word was sacred to him; and whatever that message might be, he was not one to turn his face away, but he smiled at Fate, for he believed Fate was on his side.

The voices of children are easily silenced by the fear of not being believed. If 3-year-old Michael Smith had somehow miraculously survived, would he have told anyone that his mother tried to drown him? Would anyone have believed him? No one wants to believe that a mother would sacrifice her own child, especially the child.

Why had I always believed that a frontier must, of necessity, be a physical obstacle?

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.