Quotes About Belief

Jung lo dice con toda claridad: la mente puede hacer que las cosas sucedan.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

A thick and shapeless trunk would never believe that it could become a statue, admired as a miracle of sculpture, and would never consent to submit itself to the chisel of the sculptor who sees by his genius what he can make of it.

El que lleva a Dios en su corazón lleva el Cielo con él dondequiera que va

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

A kindergarten teacher watched her classroom of children while they were drawing. She occasionally walked around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working very hard, she asked her what the drawing was. The girl replied, "I'm drawing heaven." The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what heaven looks like." Without looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, "They will in a minute.

Dreams are reality that has not become true. However, in the hearts of some people, they have already come true. People whose dreams are already achieved in their hearts, and who can see that as they boldly throw themselves into it, have true courage.

I don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think all people have greatness inside them. It is just a matter of persistence--sticking to what you have envisioned until it is reality. I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose in life. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.

When we stop dreaming and believing in our dream, we stop being human.

Ultimately, it isn't your knowledge that makes the choice: it is your values and your will to be faithful to your values.

Thoughts become things? True, but that analysis is not complete - we need to add two more words: thoughts become things through energy.

Give your Bain Vitamin H Hope is te most powerful supplement available to us, and thankfully, we can make hope for ourselves any time just by changing our thoughts and attitudes.

With the muscles of our body, we can lift and move heavy things. With the muscle of integrity, we can turn intention into powerful action. That's how we can earn trust from our conscience, and can truly believe in ourselves.

If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.

With the muscle of integrity, we can turn intention into powerful action. That's how we can earn trust form our conscience, and can truly believe in ourselves.

Morse firmly believed that there was nothing so unsatisfactory as this kind of pornography; he liked it hot or not at all.

What good is religion without magic?

That's the beauty of things, right? People should be able to believe what they want to, follow who they want to

If it were up to me I would close Guant·namo not tomorrow but this afternoon...Essentially, we have shaken the belief that the world had in America's justice system...and it's causing us far more damage than any good we get from it.

Perpetual optimism, believing in yourself, believing in your purpose, believing you will prevail, and demonstrating passion and confidence is a force multiplier. If you believe and have prepared your followers, the followers will believe.

People seem to be awfully gullible. They'll believe anything. ~in The NPR Interviews, 1996, edited by Robert Siegel

No good idea succeeds simply because it is a good idea. Good ideas must have champions—people willing to believe in them, push for them, fight for them, gain adherents and other champions, and press until they succeed.

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is slightly incredible