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Quotes About Belief

Comment avions-nous pu nous croire adultes?
~ Madeline Miller
Pourtant, certains disent que les amoureux sont fous.
~ Madeline Miller
Teti: "Non sono riuscita a far di lui un dio" Patroclo: "Ma hai fatto lui
~ Madeline Miller
No passado, já pensei que os deuses eram o contrário da morte, mas agora vejo que estão mais mortos que tudo, pois são imutáveis e não conseguem segurar nada nas mãos.
~ Madeline Miller
Cross your fingers, throw salt over your shoulder, knock on wood...simple folk remedies for unfortunate situations. Silly superstitions...but were they based in truth from a past long forgotten? I didn't know, but it wouldn't hurt to just do it and let the Universe do its job if it was of a mind to. Don't you think?
~ Unknown
No, she had no belief--none. She was completely alone with herself. The world was empty for her, but she didn't know it.
~ Madison Smartt Bell
Here, when you looked into darkness, there was God.
~ Madison Smartt Bell
In your love, my salvation lies.
~ Madison Smartt Bell
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
~ Madonna
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
~ Madonna
I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.
~ Madonna Ciccone
I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems... you can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally.
~ Unknown
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
~ Mae Jemison
He could still be her knight. But that was it. She would not love someone who had no faith in her.
~ Unknown
51. You might as well act as if objects had the colors, The Encyclopedia says. –Well, it is as you please. But what would it look like to act otherwise?
~ Maggie Nelson
Never in my life have I felt more prochoice than when I was pregnant. And never in my life have I understood more thoroughly, and been more excited about, a life that began at conception.
~ Maggie Nelson
220. Imagine someone saying, "Our fundamental situation is joyful." Now imagine believing it. 221. Or forget belief: imagine feeling, even if for a moment, that it were true.
~ Maggie Nelson
We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate on them well," wrote Emerson. Is it true? If so, who can bear to believe it?
~ Maggie Nelson
Nothing you say can fuck up the space for God.
~ Maggie Nelson
Corollary habit: deriving the bulk of my self-wroth from a feeling of hypercompetence, an irrational but fervent belief in my near total self-reliance.
~ Maggie Nelson
It has been drummed into her by physicians and priests alike that the character of a child is determined by the mother's thoughts at the moment of conception.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
That it is possible to comfort your daughters with assurances about places in Heaven and eternal joy and how they may all be reunited after death and how he will be waiting for them, while not believing any of it.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
September 11 Never a trial that He is not there. Never a burden that He does not bear. Never a sorrow that He does not share. Moment by moment I'm under His care. —D.W.Whittle
~ Unknown
I've never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It's the intelligence. It's the mind that makes it so.
~ Maggie Shayne