Quotes About Belief

Can you really change anything, Joel?

know anything about the Holy Grail, and I have to admit he ran with the ball.

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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

So he who strongly feels, behaves.

You're not free until you've been made captive by / supreme belief.

Things happen, he believed, and there's nothing you can do to keep them from occurring without taking out the magic spark plug, the genius of invention that ignited the adventure in the first place.

when the daily reality presents itself as uncomprehendable, we fashion our own myths and then hold those phony truths to be inalienable.

Hay que respetar las legítimas ansias de verdad: el hombre tiene obligación grave de buscar al Señor, de conocerle y de adorarle, pero nadie en la tierra debe permitirse imponer al prójimo la práctica de una fe de la que carece; lo mismo que nadie puede arrogarse el derecho de hacer daño al que la ha recibido de Dios»

Life is better when we imagine it

There is no faster way to harden my determination than to assume I will fail at something.

Will there not be any scandal if she marries *me*?" I asked -- not quite believing that living in pseudo-wedlock with a half-human foreign transvestite was any improvement over spinsterhood.

They say there are no atheists in war; I tell you that pantheists abound at the edge of a cliff. I would have taken the blessing of any god I could get.

But my desire for knowledge was stronger than my religious sensibilities, which after all were more a matter of unthinking habit than real conviction.

That image—last night's dream—made me think of the quote I had taped to the top of my screen, Professor Madison paraphrasing Mark Twain. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and prophecy.

I would choose the heat above an equal degree of chill. The evidence of natural history points to a tropical origin for our species, and I believe it to be true.

I trusted in friendship rather than love

My aim throughout is to let facts speak for themselves. If they seem strange, unreal, even impossible, I can only say that the things of the invisible world must always appear so to those whose thoughts and desires are centred on this life only.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

Scientist believe in things, not in person

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

We must keep our certainty that after the bad days the good times will come again

We must believe that we are gifted for something and the this thing MUST be attained.