Quotes About Belief

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.

There is no one truth. There's only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

she told me she'd be a phoenix. The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. They don't really exist. She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you.

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

Just so you know, when they say Once upon a time" . . . they're lying

My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White)

You know how I see it? There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing--light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light...I guess from my point of view, we can choose to be in the dark, or we can light a candle. And for me, Christ is that candle.

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

Your religion should help you make the decision if you find yourself in that situation, but the policy should exist for you to have the right to make it in the first place. When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because YOUR religion forbids it, that's a problem.

I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.