Quotes About Belief

What seems right isn't always right, though, is it?

Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life.

We have lost the courage to hope.

The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.

The moment a student gives up his right of personal judgment, he is in for accepting all the humbugs of life

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all of the time.

The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

Stand by your principles, stand by your guns, and victory, complete and permanent, is sure at the last.

I would like to call upon his friends everywhere to consider how they have come in so short a time to view this matter in a way so entirely different from their former belief; to ask whether they are not being borne along by an irresistible current--whither, they know not.

This slavery element is a durable element of discord among us, and ... we shall probably not have perfect peace in this country with it until it either masters the free principle in our government, or is so far mastered by the free principle as for the public mind to rest in the belief that it is going to end.

I cannot but express gratitude that the true view of this element of discord among us--as I believe it is--is attracting more and more attention.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, you can take as fact the four words I'm about to speak—though I speak them with some regret, since I enjoy cryptozoological legends as much as the next man: There ain't no Nessie." This

You say the ancient Egyptians believed the heart was critical for surviving in the next world." Romero nodded. "Once in the netherworld, the pharaoh's heart would have been inspected, tested by Anubis, in a ceremony known as the Weighing of the Heart. At least, that was the belief of later Egyptians.

The things we learn in our formative years stay with us. Right or wrong, the lessons of our youth shape our adult view of the world. Having been raised Amish, I was taught to believe the best about people. Most of the time that philosophy serves me well. I still believe that the majority of people are fundamentally good. As a cop, though, I'm keenly aware that many are not.

I used to subscribe to the belief that a person's loved ones are the people who know them best. It wasn't until I had some life experience under my belt that I learned the premise couldn't be farther from the truth. Sometimes a person's loved ones are the last to know—or the last to acknowledge—a fault or weakness. That's especially true when you're Amish.

outrage, anger, a keen sense of injustice. Contrary to popular belief, those kinds of emotions are not a cop's best friend, particularly if you're female and trying to maintain some semblance of credibility.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

We survive the packages of pain God allows in our lives by remembering who God is and what He has done in the past.

When What Ifs come into our lives, we must ask ourselves if we're going to judge God by the circumstances we don't understand or judge the circumstances in light of the character of God.

Faith raises us above our circumstances. Faith enables us to be content even when life doesn't make sense. Faith is the bulwark that keeps us strong even when we're assailed by agonizing thoughts about what might happen or by what has happened.

Faith is not something to be reasoned from afar, but something we throw ourselves into — heart, mind, and soul.