Quotes About Belief

I know now that almost everyone wonders something like that, sooner or later and no matter what he or she is doing, but one 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 to anyone before.

A belief in extreme possibilities colors daily life.

I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month.

Particularly out here tonight, in this country so ominous and terrible that to live in it is to live with antimatter, it is difficult to believe that "the good" is a knowable quantity.

Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane.

I know now that almost everyone wonders something like that, sooner or later and no matter what he or she is doing, but one of the mixed blessings of being twenty or twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.

I remember wishing that I could afford the house, which cost $ 1,000 a month. "Someday you will," she said lazily. "Someday it all comes." There in the sun on her terrace it seemed easy to believe in someday, but later I had a low-grade afternoon hangover and ran over a black snake on the way to the supermarket and was flooded with inexplicable fear when I heard the checkout clerk explaining to the man ahead of me why she was finally divorcing her husband.

He had never lied to me, as far as I knew. But did I know anything?

But any religion would be found lacking if judged solely by its human servants.

God doesn't make bargains with people, as much as we might wish that he would. And what if he did? We'd probably make a mess of our requests. Better that he keep his authority, and we accept his governance.

She was striving to change, she was, but it was hard, all the same, to let go of the glory of her past certainties, of her belief in passion, and surrender, and the seductive power of giving in to inclination.

Not having God with you is like trying to walk normally on one leg; it twists you, it must.

The fact is, until we stop doubting God's goodness, we can't experience God's love.

Cross my heart and hope to die. I wonder where that comes from." "It's a reference to the crucifixion. It's like knock on wood . That's a reference to the wooden cross.

it, I just did it. I don't know if I

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

A demon, if you prefer the term; although to be honest, the difference between god and a demon is really only a matter of perspective.

A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller gods - you people see gods everywhere. Gives you an excuse for not thinking for yourselves. God is just a word. Like Fury. like demon, Just words people use for things they don't understand. Reverse it and you get dog. It's just as appropriate.

A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.

There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankly, just gave him the creeps.

Anything that can be dreamed is true.

You see, I do believe in miracles. I, who have passed through fire. I do believe.

Not that a promise means much to a demon - or a god.