Quotes About Belief

O-kay. Kind of freaky. I'm now standing in an actual tomb, in pitch darkness, with only a vampire to keep me company. Last week if you'd sworn on a stack of Bibles that I'd be okay with all of this, I wouldn't have believed you.

From an evolutionary perspective, he says, it is safest to err on the side of gullibility. "If you miss the tiger hiding in the grass, you're dead. If you're always seeing tigers, you're running away a lot, but you're not dead.

Even people who've never seen a miracle can believe in miracles.

She looks up at the mountain and wonders which god answered her prayers, wonders if she prayed them.

Maybe every monster is a miracle meant to change the world.

Children are better at feeding monsters than adults are. They don't have the burden of suspicion.

Wer liebt, ist blind, taub und stumm. Die Liebe verändert den Rhythmus der Tage. Sie macht uns glauben, es sei Sommer, wenn der Herbstregen fällt. Wir spüren mitten in der Sonne Kälteschauer wie im Winter. Sie ist trügerisch und spielt mit uns, dass wir auf das Unmögliche vertrauen...

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.

Religion is the bulwark of civilization. A people who believe nothing and therefore fear nothing will create anarchy, for themselves and others.

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

courage is walking through your fear with faith.

It takes courage to care. It takes passion to stand up for someone or something you believe in and care about.

Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.

Some amusing incidents occurred, but we were made to feel over and over that the Gospel of healing touches hearts as nothing else does; no amount of reasoning or preaching theories, or denouncing people's sins, convinces the world that God lives and moves on earth today as does the fact that the blind see, the deaf hear and the paralyzed walk.

Preach Jesus and hold unto God until the signs follow. There is something wrong unless they do follow. Don't wait until you have any special gift. Believe you can do it and it will be done.

We can talk until we are hoarse and they won't be convinced, but the power of God convinces them. Don't wait for manifestations before you go forth and do something. When you are weakest, then you are strong. Let us go out and work miracles. Then the people will glorify God.

she had no regrets in the way her life had turned out. She'd always believed things turned out the way they were meant to.

I try to act out of faith.

After each horizon is the sun, if you go to life.

As truth reality contains a large amount of imagination; in some cases, of lack of imagination.

The big truth, maybe the only truth, is that we don't know anything for sure.