Quotes About Belief

Hope lies in action

There is hope for you yet. -Einstein the Labrador Retriever via scrabble tiles

Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

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.

and they believe he or she might have gotten as far as Jacob's Ladder, her island, her home.

Well," he said, "you can either do the wrong thing and let a loss like that destroy you, or you can do the right thing and be properly grateful for all that came before the loss. Grief should drive you to your knees, but if you stay there forever, you're saying you know better than God how the world should work. And you don't." He

I was finally convinced of something I had suspected for a long time: God has a sense of humor, and because the world is wondrous, God expects us to find reasons to smile even on the darkest days.

When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.

Some believed the most ridiculous things without a shred of evidence, but wouldn't believe a truth even when it stuck its fingers in their eyes. So to speak.

rotten as the minds of those who believe they can learn all that exists to be known and can control anything they wish to control, who believe that it is their right, above the rights of all other men and women, to shape the destinies of their neighbors, cities, nations, and the Earth entire, according to their whims.

Joel Bandiri

Libby believes that she hears her mother's voice submerged in the louder shriek

Fantasy is a doorway to superstition. Talking animals, humble pig, a clever spider - A corrupting influence...the first step in a life of unreason and irrational beliefs... It would've been better if they hit us. Much better. Bruises, broken bones - that's the kind of thing gets the attention of Child Protective Services.

maybe I shouldn't have regarded the ISA as omniscient and omnipresent.

When they believe your lie is the truth, when they fail to see that the freedom you claim to champion is in fact slavery disguised, they'll live by whatever rules you imply without realizing they're being obedient.

All three are nihilists

Miracles were not given, they were earned.

those who believe in nothing for long enough will eventually believe in anything.

something of you, but please believe me, I didn't come to warn you that Beezo is on your doorstep. He

People like her are everywhere these days. When they believe your lie is the truth, when they fail to see that the freedom you claim to champion is in fact slavery disguised, they'll live by whatever rules you imply without realizing they're being obedient.

Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of a deep hole. The second hand was faith—the faith that her hope would be borne out;

They were stories of things that had never happened and could never happen, but she told them with such quiet verve and conviction that we believed them and wanted to continue believing even after time robbed us of our sense of wonder.

When people think their lives are without meaning, they'll seek meaning even from the creepiest of charlatans

Your faith could have no substance if you did not also accept the reality of its effects in this world.