Quotes About Belief

The sign for believe flashed into my head—the way Sean signed it—his pointer finger against the side of his head like he's saying "think," then his hands coming together—like the sign for marry. I stood there thinking, for the first time, about how perfect that word was—to have a thought in your head and then to marry it, to take it into your heart forever . . . "I can't believe

So this is what he believes in your hands in the cool dirt until the earth gives back to you all that you've asked of it.

Some people don't believe you can meet and know that's the person for you for the rest of your life. I'm not going to try to argue with them on that. I know what I know.

And all the worlds you are - Ohio and Greenville Woodson and Irby Gunnar's Child and Jack's daughter Jehovah's Witness and nonbeliever listener and writer Jackie and Jacqueline - gather into one world called You where You decide what each world and each story and each ending will finally be.

Probably still believed that if you wished hard enough you could make the impossible happen.

As they grabbed each other's arms and bounce-walked down the hall, I was sure no ghost mothers existed in their pasts. I truly believed they were standing steadily in the world.

My Muslim beliefs lived just left of my heart. I was leaving space for something more promising.

Maybe this was the moment when I knew I was part of a long line of almost erased stories. A child of denial. Of magical thinking.

It isn't very logical to live my life on goundless supposition. I have to assume the truth of the moment is the truth of the future. - Leah

You believe in Destiny, don't you?" "Yes," said Leah quietly. "Then you have to believe that things happen for a reason, and even if you change something. Destiny will find a way to fulfill her needs." - Jasmine

When we have no trust, the vacant space that is left becomes filled with fear.

We speak of it like it is always possible, but we never truly expect it.

If the heart did not feel, then there was no hope for the rest. Feeling was necessary to passion and caring and belief.

I do a great deal of research. I don't want anyone to say, 'That could not have happened.' It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

Everyone yearns for heaven, and nothing binds you to the hope of eternal life like that kind of defeat on earth.

We are all bundles of wild and warrantless convictions, especially about one another, and when one gets an accidental glimpse of someone else's candid mind, the sight is dread-inspiring. For his cozy chamber of horrors - and particularly his facts - are owned and enjoyed in complete faith.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

I am rather inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.

Omul a fost z?mislit din lut ?i ap?. De ce o femeie n-ar fi n?scut? din rou?, aburi p?mânte?ti ?i raze de lumin?, din r?m??i?ele unui curcubeu f?râmat? Ce este cu putin???... ?i ce e cu neputin???...

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

I rightly pass for an atheist.

Faith has to come to birth as a free act, not a forced one. Otherwise it has no meaning.

People think that they have no right to judge a 'fact' - all they have to do is to accept it.

Arousing an active and mythical belief" The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action. It is no longer to change adherence to a doctrine, but to make the individual cling irrationally to a process of action. It is no longer to lead to a choice, but to loosen the reflexes. It is no longer to transform an opinion, but to arouse an active and mythical belief.