Quotes About Belief

To expect an impossibility is madness.

Remember that all is opinion.

Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in your power. Take away then, when you choose, your opinion, and like a mariner who has rounded the headland, you will find calm, everything stable, and a waveless bay.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

One God, One Aim, One Destiny. (Motto of the UNIA)

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life

Who to tell what tomorrow will bring forth? Did they not laugh at Moses, Christ and Mohammed? Was there not a Carthage, Greece and Rome? We see and have changes every day, so pray, work, be steadfast and be not dismayed.

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here.

So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident that the one who has buoyed us up in life will also buoy us up through death. We die into God. What more that means, I do not know. But that is all I need to know.

But believing something to be true has nothing to do with whether it is true.

When somebody says to me, "I don't believe in God," my first response is, "Tell me about the God you don't believe in." Almost always, it's the God of supernatural theism.

Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God.

I had only one Teammate. And He moved, as ever, in mysterious ways.

My God had not spoken to me again. But neither had He forsaken me. I knew that. For damned sure, I knew that.

Every Navy SEAL is supremely confident, because we're indoctrinated with a belief in victory at all costs; a conviction that no earthly force can withstand our thunderous assault on the battlefield. We're invincible, right? Unstoppable. That's what I believed to the depths of my spirit on the day they pinned the Trident on my chest. I still believe it. And I always will.

Maybe that's what love is. Believing in the best version of your partner, so they have the courage to believe it themselves.

You wanted to believe that the sniper had a reason. That he wasn't just a broken guy who'd been abused by his uncle or whatever. Wanting to believe that there's a logic behind insanity.

Even Christ hadn't been able to sell salvation to contented sinners.

Jesus, yes. I was educated by nuns. Long ago, when I was a human girl. I learned the Bible, studied the verses, memorized the teachings of Christ. When I passed, I expected to find him there." She stared out the window. "But in the centuries I walked beyond the world, I never saw him.

Okay. Life isn't like the movies—you know, how the bad guys just want to be bad guys, villains. In real life, there aren't very many villains. Mostly, people believe they're doing the right thing. Even the ones who are doing bad things usually believe they're heroes, that whatever terrible thing they're doing is to prevent something worse. They're scared.

Truth is a slippery concept." "No, the great thing about the truth is that it's true.