Quotes About Belief

The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.

Don't you find it fascinating, boy-o, that the people who call on God the most believe in God the least?

You only want to brawl. You want a fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes," said Jess.

Clinging to science was, when you got right down to it, just a god of a different flavor.

But all sympathetic magic has some basis in fact. The brain's wired to seek the mystical, so...- -Just because we're hardwired to want to believe doesn't make it true.-

The old man stroked a finger over a wooden charm hung around [redacted]'s chest on a leather cord. -{redacted] believed it would protect you. Whether it did is immaterial. It was something [redacted] could give, and in return, that gave [redacted] courage. It gave [redacted] faith. But all emotions are chemically mediated and may be manipulated. Every drunk, every lover, any ecstatic mystic knows that. There is no heart without the head.-

After that leap, she really believed she might dare anything, because no matter what, if she jumped, her father would be waiting to swim by her side, stroke for stroke, into forever. Of course, she was nine and her dad was immortal. And nothing lasts forever.

You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.

Alles, woran man glaubt, beginnt zu existieren.

The deaf don't believe in silence. Silence is the invention of the hearing.

Life is not a destination; it is a journey. Faith makes everything possible. In order to succeed in life, we must first believe that we can.

The government people wanted us to believe there was something wrong with her. Because she was strong. Because she stood up for what she believed. Times were hard, but she was still Mom, and she refused to let anyone reduce her.

I believed in Papa's stories a lot longer than I should have.

The thinking few is right. But not always.

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

I was living proof of the power of prayer and positive thinking, which really are almost the same thing. God is the source of all positive energy, and prayer is the best way to tap into His power.

I loved praying, going to church, and everything else to do with God. I especially loved the Virgin Mary, believing that she was my second mom, watching out for me from heaven.

La fe mueve montañas Immaculée, pero si fuera fácil tener fe, ya habrían desaparecido todas las montañas. Confía en mí y puedes estar segura que jamás te abandonaré. Confía en mí y no temas. Confía en mí y yo te salvaré. Pondré mi cruz sobre la puerta, y ellos no podrán llegar a dónde tú estás. Confía en mí y vivirás.

Then Jesus spoke: "Mountains are moved with faith, Immaculee, but if faith were easy, all the Mountains would be gone".

Mountains are moved with faith, Immaculee, but if faith were easy, all the mountains would be gone.

Faith moves mountains, if faith were easy there would be no mountains.

Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.