Quotes About Belief

What they consecrated, held in their own hands, and distributed was sacred because of the people who received it.

real religion is in people's hearts and not in buildings, texts, or rituals.

we'll take it step by step. Don't worry about what tomorrow will bring. With God's guidance, tomorrow will take care of itself.

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea

Every path leads to the same god.

That's what friends do–they remind you of who you are underneath all the stuff people believe about you, all the stuff you believe about yourself.

But I would like to make an important point before this goes any further and that is if anyone feels like arresting me for corrupting an innocent kid then all I can say is that Edmond was not corruptible. Some people are just like that and if you don't believe me it just means you've never met one of them yourself. Which is your loss.

Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway.

So much relies on one person assuming the other is telling the truth. If a person can lie to you about one thing, he can lie about something else.

I mean, why? Why did I go on believing? Did it make sense? Why did I go on thinking, even when [he] slammed me around, that if you are good enough, patient enough, for long enough, your reward will come?

If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist.

And I also know that pain can seem like an endless ribbon. You pull it and you pull it. You keep gathering it toward you, and as it collects, you really can't believe that there's something else at the end of it. Something that isn't just more pain. But there's always something else at the end; something at least a little different. You never know what that thing will be, but it's there.

because when you're young, you don't really believe you'll ever be anything other than young.

Faith Frank hired me, originally, based on nothing. She took me in and she taught me things, and more than that she gave me permission. I think that's what the people who change our lives always do. They give us permission to be the person we secretly really long to be but maybe don't feel we're allowed to be.

Sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves a story.

He'd had a real talent, but what was talent without confidence, self-possession, "ownership," as people said, pompously but maybe accurately.

It was exhausting being a schizophrenic, which he was still convinced he was.

age sixty-eight and still wanting love to exist in a pure column of light, still convinced that it could.

Jonah was a skeptic, the way all decent scientists were, but his skepticism was outmaneuvered by the good feelings that he now connected with being here among these people. This was what a family felt like; this was what a family was.

here I was: shouting compliments about Joe through the mayonnaise-colored living room of my childhood and hoping I would start to believe them.

when you're young, you don't really believe you'll ever be anything other than young.

The Kadetskys were atheists—"lowercase a," her father always said, afraid that deification could slip into a nuance of typography.

The world is a fiction the brain constructs

Whenever I doubted myself, my dad would say, 'Grab that dream by the hands, Gwennie. Clutch until the knuckles go white.'" "Whose dream?" "It doesn't matter whose dream it is," she said. "Just that it's a dream.