Quotes About Belief

Irrational fear feeds on itself and grows. You must deny it.

One of the good things about being twelve or younger is that you tend to believe that you'll live forever.

What we fear too much we often bring to pass.

You must never lie to yourself, or you are left with no one to trust.

Belief and trust, twined together, can meet any danger.

I had come to believe that her powers, whatever their nature, were greater than mine. But now I was chagrined to realize that I had failed to grasp how we were in at least one way alike: Some things visible to us were invisible to the vast majority of human beings, even if perhaps each of us saw different things from what the other perceived.

I trusted providence to prevent a sneeze, refused to worry, declined to dwell on negative possibilities, and I did not sneeze, did not sneeze, still did not sneeze, but then I farted.

CHANGE ISN'T EASY, Micky. Changing the way you live means changing how you think. Changing how you think means changing what you believe about life. That's hard, sweetie. When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

He said that the penny would not bring us luck, that even if it had been a million dollars, it would not of itself bring us luck and change our lives, that what happened to us was of our election—and therefore allowed us more hope than luck could ever provide.

Will I see you again?' I asked. 'Of course you will dear, you'll see everyone again;

Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass.

I have no choice but to believe that all our lives are woven through with grace, because only then could the promise made to me and Stormy come true.

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

Whatever you expect is what will be, so simply change your expectations.

He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared eternal life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

I asked for a sign that what I had done was necessary. Just one small sign. Nothing big. One small but incontestable sign. I opened my eyes. There was no sign. It doesn't work that way and never did.

Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answers...God doesn't shout, He wispers, and in the wispers is the way.

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

BETWEEN BIRTH AND BURIAL, WE FIND OURSELVES in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy—well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. In

the optimist, unlike the pessimist, believes that life has meaning, that there is something to learn from every adversity, and even that the absurdity of such an excess of misfortune will likely seem at least somewhat amusing after enough time has passed.

Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

To you of great faith, I am the product of your wisdom and the guarantor of your immortality.

It is human nature to know we die and still to disbelieve it; otherwise, we might not carry on. When

Sometimes I am hampered by having a moral code, but I have it nonetheless, like a burr under the brain, with no way to pluck it out.