Quotes About Belief

Fundamentalism is essentially a revolt against modernity. It is a reaction usually based on profound fear and defensiveness against "losing the faith.

Living in faith is knowing that even though our little work, our little seed, our little brick, our little block may not make the whole thing, the whole thing exists in the mind of God, and that whether or not we are there to see the whole thing is not the most important matter. The most important thing is whether we have entered into the process.

Crerand recalls, it gave them an injection of confidence. 'After winning the Cup, we realised that we could then win anything,' he says. 'It was the start of our good run in the 1960s, much like Alex Ferguson's success in 1990 was the start of what has become the greatest era in United's history.

I think everybody should believe in himself. I suppose, in a way, that's also believing in God. If there is a God and He made you, then believing in yourself is also believing in Him. Once you carry God inside yourself, then you're part of Him.

Thank you God for making me strong, and thank you God for staying where you belong— Inside me.

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people find it.

Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.

Parents need to be on the same page spiritually in order to pass on those values to their children.

People always believe that they are able to be objective, especially when it comes to relationships, yet very few are truly capable of

People always believe that they are able to be objective, especially when it comes to relationships, yet very few are truly capable of it.

plan as though Jesus is not returning for a hundred years and live as though Jesus is returning today.

That's what got her, of course. That everyone thought it so unbelievable that she could possibly attract a man like him. It shouldn't upset her because it was true. She couldn't. Not in this world, in this lifetime. Yet she didn't appreciated everyone else acting as if they were the most improbable twosome since Quasimodo hit on Esmeralda.

Doesn't everyone sell his soul? I tell you, sir: the devil does not exist, there is no devil, yet I sold him my soul. That is what I am afraid of. To whom did I sell it? That is what I am afraid of, my dear sir: we sell our souls, only there is no buyer.

Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats.

A única esperança que nos resta é que estas contradições sejam uma questão de gerações. No futuro haveremos de parecer bem ridículos.

The problems of the moment must never place the principle in doubt.

O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible

I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future.

In was raised to believe that what came in on the next roll would always be better than what went out on the last. I no longer believe that, but I am telling you how it was.

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative

When we lose that sense of the possible we lose it fast.

One difference between the West and the South, I came to realize in 1970, was this: in the South they remained convinced that they had bloodied their land with history. In California we did not believe that history could bloody the land, or even touch it.