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Quotes About Belief

To admit that some people literally have no conscience is not technically the same as saying that some human beings are evil, but it is disturbingly close. And good people want very much not to believe in the personification of evil.
~ Martha Stout
I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.
~ Martha Wells
an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
~ Martha Wells
Gurathin turned to him, impatient. "The log confirms it because that's what the Unit believes happened." Bharadwaj sighed. "Yet here I sit, alive.
~ Martha Wells
Dr. Arada, who is what her marital partner Overse calls a "terminal optimist
~ Martha Wells
It's joking." Ratthi managed to sound like he completely believed that. "That's how it looks when it's joking." He sent me on the feed, Stop joking.
~ Martha Wells
It's not aliens, 2.0 said. I knew it wasn't aliens, I told it. It countered, We were seventy-two percent sure if wasn't aliens.
~ Martha Wells
But then an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
~ Martha Wells
I'll try to be more accurate. I was indifferent, and vaguely annoyed. Do you believe that?
~ Martha Wells
when I do manage to care, I'm a pessimist.
~ Martha Wells
Like all good advice, Moon didn't think he was going to have much chance to follow it.
~ Martha Wells
Has God ever forsaken you? He told you He wouldn't, and He never has. Never.
~ Martha Williamson
God loves you. He will walk with you all the way, but it's up to you to take the first step.
~ Martha Williamson
Don't give up now. If God has brought you this far, He won't leave you. Will you try? Will you give Him a chance to take the fear away?
~ Martha Williamson
Faith that no matter what happens, you won't lose God's love.
~ Martha Williamson
There are great mysteries in this world that only God understands. But this I do understand. No mistake you may have ever made is bigger than God's power to fix it.
~ Martha Williamson
Look, He's not promising that it's going to be easy, but He says it's going to be worth it.
~ Martha Williamson
People like to think that bad things only happen to faceless strangers in newspapers, until it happens to them. That's why our faith must be strong now, before we need it.
~ Martha Williamson
Every prayer gets answered. Sometimes the answer is "no," but sometimes the answer is "not yet.
~ Martha Williamson
You don't need proof. You need faith.
~ Martha Williamson
We mess up sometimes. You haven't exactly thrown Him for a loop, you know. He can handle it.
~ Martha Williamson
If God is willing to forgive you, who are you not to forgive yourself? You think you know better than God?
~ Martha Williamson
Things happen in God's time, not yours.
~ Martha Williamson
Without faith, a man's hope is in nothing but himself. And sooner or later, he will let himself down. But God will never let us down.
~ Martha Williamson