Quotes About Belief

I knew I could make it in Cebu, but I never thought I could make it in Manila.

It's very easy on social media to manipulate people's emotions, to manipulate their belief systems.

Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

People ask me, 'Do you think Hef is still at the mansion?' and I say, 'Absolutely.' I just feel like he is.

My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!

I believe I can hit the 20 goals a season mark.

I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.

To me, we're marketing hope.

I have always believed in the marketplace of ideas.

We really believe in the earnings. We're very proud that often we do well in the down market. But you know, there are some markets where they just lose liquidity, like 2001, 2008.

The only person I'll marry is myself. Believe me, my ego is that big.

people will treat with disdain such phenomena as are proved by the evidence of the senses, and commonly experienced—while they will defend to the death the reality of a phenomenon which they have neither seen nor experienced. "Faith is as powerful a force as science," he concluded, voice soft in the darkness

There are, however, Christians and people of other faiths who seem to have no trouble speaking of God's ultimacy with one breath and staking out a private territory of God's activity and grace with the next.

At my first coming into the world I had been (implicitly) warned never to trust a [Catholic], and at my first coming into the English Faculty (explicitly) never to trust a philologist. Tolkien was both." Within

The assault, it seemed, was relentless. Tongue in cheek, he writes, "Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side." The

Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours. He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything. Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies. What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you know, called Wales, and I refuse to believe he's dead!

I've often noticed Fiona said, that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.

Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love, and not before. Michael to Sophie about wether or not Howl is really in love with Lettie. pg, 170

Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit! Sophie said. I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!

Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.

And suddenly, as if her head had cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they're only in my own mind, she thought, they're there and worth fighting for. I mustn't give in.

And, suddenly, as if her head cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they're only in my own mind, she thought, they're there and worth fighting for.