Quotes About Belief

We'd avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God's wild affection for us.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

When I became a Christian as a teenager, I gathered a false belief to myself that my Christian friends would be my forever friends. Surely, since we both loved Jesus and followed Him, we would always be in each other's lives. No one would hurt the other -- because Jesus! It didn't take long for that theory of mine to be tested by reality.

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

Nothing you can do will separate you from His love. Nothing you don't do will separate you from His love. Nothing done to you will separate you from His love.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

Maybe some lies, maybe most of them, were lies we only told ourselves.

I felt something wet trickle down the side of my face. I reached up and swiped the salty wetness away. How quaint. How very quaint. Like believing some things last forever. A tear. As if that could make a difference.

Because if I could believe in tomorrow or the next day, maybe that would give the magic time to come true. Or better, maybe by then I wouldn't need the magic at all.

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't even know they're connected. Father and Lily were two sides of the same coin, I've decided, and maybe I am the space in between.

He believes me. But that is nothing new. He always did because I was a rule follower. I played by the rules he understood. But there are new rules now, ones he doesn't know yet. He'll learn. Just as I'm learning.

The magic of the wishes, of course, was simply in making them, fishing deep for a hidden desire, molding it into words to make it real, and tossing it into a mysterious unknown that you believed was maybe, just maybe, listening.

cause only the Lord knows the heart of a man. ain't our job to be second-guessing.

Doubt was a poison I couldn't afford to sip.

You going to kill the Patrei with a spoon?" I turned my head. It was Wren, her hands planted on her hips. "Not that I don't think you could.

One day hope would have a name.

Mary E. Pearson

Because if I could believe in tomorrow or the next day, maybe that would give the magic time to come true.

The thing about a mark is they've created lies in their head, a story they've invented that they desperately want to believe, a fantasy that merely needs to be fed.

She saw me as someone worth saving, in spite of my rags and past. She inspired me to be more than what others expected of me. I dared to believe I could make a difference because the queen had believed it first.

She would never believe another word I said. Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.

I am no believer in visions or omens. After all, I would sooner fancy that I was dreaming - dreaming with my eyes open as I stood at the window - than that I beheld the shadows of the dead.

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.