Quotes About Belief

Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but t is not really we who fail—we are ruined by forces beyond our control.

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

I was all too aware that there's an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so. I told myself that my tears were due tot he cold, and I believed myself.

Había cometido la osadía de creer que no podría pasarme nada: después de todo, iba inmersa en un poema.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

How can something that is true in your heart and in your mind not be real?

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

A star's shine comes from the inside. Its there inside you now,you just have to beileve in yourself.

It is solely by believing himself a creature but little lower than the cherubim that man has by interminable small degrees become, upon the whole, distinctly superior to the chimpanzee.

Even where the Faith is preserved men pursue wealth and power inordinately. Where the Faith is lost they pursue nothing else.

Matilda told such dreadful lies,It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes;Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth,Had kept a strict regard for truth,Attempted to believe Matilda:The effort very nearly killed her.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

He served his god so faithfully and well That now he sees him face to face in hell.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.

I hadn't been hanging around a knight errant for three years without learning that impossible things can happen, if you're willing to throw common sense in the air and try .

Could he possibly believe a purple tunic over a butler- yellow shirt and scarlet pants became him.

REGARDE ST. CHRISTOPHE ET VA-T-EN RASSURÉ. "Behold Saint Christopher and go on in safety,

Instinct's not a superpower. It's made of experience and memory and belief.

So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.

My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'

The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.