Quotes About Belief

They think in terms of a sentimental ballad. And that's what terrifies you about them. It isn't their cruelty, it isn't even their shrewdness - it's their extraordinary naivete. Everything in their whole bloody world is a cliche. Everything is born out of a cliche, rests on a cliche, survives by a cliche. And they believe in the cliches - there's no hope

Everything in their whole bloody world is a cliché. Everything is born out of a cliché, rests on a cliché, survives by a cliché. And they believe in the clichés - there's no hope.

Only the magic and the dream are true - all the rest's a lie. Let it go. Here is the secret. Here.

I prayed, but the words fell to the ground meaning nothing.

I don't say I don't believe, I say I don't know, I know what I see with my eyes and I never see it.

but it seemed to me that when you are in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

Safety is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

I'm telling you stories. Trust me.

If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.

There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own.

I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to work for anyone, an absentee boss is best.

She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.

I love her. Then you do not love the Lord. Yes, I love both of them. You cannot. I do.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.

Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue.

The heart is so easily mocked, believing that the sun can rise twice or that roses bloom because we want them to.

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

We mostly understand ourselves through an endless series of stories told to ourselves by ourselves and others. The so-called facts of our individual worlds are highly coloured and arbitrary, facts that fit whatever reality we have chosen to believe in. . . . It may be that to understand ourselves as fictions, is to understand ourselves as fully as we can.

Stories are always true... it's the facts that mislead.

True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction – don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.

I sat at the back, listening to the music or mumbling through the sevice. I'm never tempted by God, but I like his trappings.