Quotes About Belief

If we choose to believe we are helpless victims and that it's all hopeless, then the Universe will support us in that belief, and we will just go down the drain. It is vital that we release these foolish, outmoded, negative ideas and beliefs that do not support us and nourish us. Even our concept of God needs to be one that is for us, not against us.

Affirmative statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

At least I don't believe in God", he told the Russian one morning. "And if you did believe, Mechanik, what then?" "Then I'd kill myself. Because if God is all-powerful and all-knowing, he must have no pity. He looks down and sees everything and doesn't bring evil to an end. I wouldn't live if I thought a God could end the pain and didn't." "And what good would your death do?" "It would teach a God a lesson.

Wiktor almost smiled. His suspicions were

Armand Gamache had always held unfashionable beliefs. He believed the light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that goodness existed, even in the most desperate places. He believed that evil had its limits.

All will be as it should, if we just do our best.

But he also knew praying was more to steady the person than inform the deity.

believe in using your head. But not in spending too much time in there. Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

I saw a lot of men die there. Most men. Do you know what killed them?"…"Despair," said Finney. "They believed themselves to be prisoners. I lived with those men, ate the same maggot-infested food, slept in the same beds, did the same back-breaking work. But they died and I lived. Do you know why?" "You were free." "I was free. Milton was right…the mind is its own place. I was never a prisoner. Not then, not now.

How did you know He was God?' Gamache asked. 'When does a bush that burns become a Burning Bush?' Em asked and Gamache nodded. 'My despair disappeared. The grief remained, of course, but I knew then that the world wasn't a dark and desperate place. I was so relieved. In that moment I found hope. This strnager with the sign had given it to me. It sounds ridiculous, I know, but suddenly the gloom was lifted.' She paused a moment, remembering, a smile on her face.

You need to remember that, Jean-Guy. The blindness you mention isn't believing in the essential goodness of people, it's failing to see it.

believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn't.

It was funny how obsessed people believed others equally obsessed, or even interested.

How often we made our worst fears come true, by behaving as though they already were.

A belief of convenience isn't much use, is it?

Joy doesn't ever leave, you know. It's always with you. And one day you'll find it again.

She took the long way home," said Ruth. "Some do, you know. They seem lost. Sometimes they might even head off in the wrong direction. Lots of people give up, say they're gone forever, but I don't believe that. Some make it home, eventually.

Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr?

She did believe in God. And she believed that Jane was with him. And suddenly her pain and grief became human and natural. And survivable. She had a place to put it, a place where Jane was with God. It was such a relief. She looked

Change the facts and you'll change the feelings." Chapter 20 · Page 175 · Location 3170

Don't believe everything you think. Chief Inspector Gamache wrote that on the board for the incoming cadets at the start of every year at the Sûreté academy, and it stayed there all year.

We just don't know. The key is to keep going. Joy might be just around the corner.

I'll put my faith in individuals, not the collective.