Quotes About Belief

The medical profession has had an especially persuasive claim to authority. Unlike the law and the clergy, it enjoys close bonds with modern science, and at least for most of the last century, scientific knowledge has held a privileged status in the hierarchy of belief.

The religious belief varies from village to village. Nearly all worship the cholera and smallpox deities, and there are traces of serpent worship.

MOST TRAVEL, AND CERTAINLY the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life. This risky suspension of disbelief is often an experience freighted with anxiety. But what's the alternative? Usually there is none.

the conceit of the long-distance traveler is the belief that he is going so far, he will be alone—inconceivable that another person has the same good idea.

to rid the people of their old beliefs and insert new ones.

There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.

It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.

If optimism is the highest form of courage -- as I am beginning to believe it is -- then these students are all heroes.

True love asks no questions, makes no reservations, but puts itself unconditionally into the hands of the loved one.

She considered herself fortunate to count enough in his eyes for him to derive pleasure from offending her, as believers give thanks to God for humbling them.

She considered herself fortunate to count enough in his eyes for him to derive pleasure from offending her, as believers give thanks to God for humbling them. But

What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked. "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

A man only has a soul to be won or lost.

The warrior who trusts his path doesn't need to prove the other is wrong.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Maktub (It is written.)

Maktub," she said. "If I am really part of your dream, you'll come back one day.

It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.