Quotes About Belief

My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

What you're telling yourself about yourself is having a powerful effect on your life and your health.

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

I never knew there was a whole denomination as full of questions as I was.")

A lie, when believed, became the truth.

So learn how much you're worth to God. Revel in that information and then walk in it.

Even in the most wretched life, there's hope.

I don't think unhappiness is fated.

The Empress Marie-Louise once asked me if I believed in ghosts. 'I find it hard to believe in something I've never seen,' I told her. But perhaps ghosts aren't meant to be seen. Perhaps they are meant to be felt.

In Egypt, there is a saying: When good fortune looks down upon us, it does so in threes, one for each part of the Eye of Horus. His upper lid, his lower lid and the eye itself.

If the gods cannot recognize your names," she warned, "they will never hear your prayers.

A religious people is a people with purpose. So if the grain fails, or the aqueducts turn muddy, it can be Jupiter's fault, not his.

EVERY MAN WITH A LACK OF INCOME AND A TALENT FOR words now believes himself to be a journalist.

Three weeks after New Year, she lost her faith. It happened quite suddenly. She simply woke up and it was gone. As she lay in bed it occurred to her that between religion and superstition there was no difference, since both were based on unreason. To kill a man to redeem the sins of others was as irrational as tapping a hole in one's eggshell to stop a witch using it as a boat.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' VOLTAIRE

But young as I was, I suspected that a God who allows such cruelty wouldn't have cared about bringing it to an end. ? Michelle Paver, Dark Matter

Hij vroeg zich af waarom ze niet gek van angst was geworden. Misschien was je niet bang voor geesten als je de dochter van een Hogepriesteres van Keftioe was. Of misschien was ze gewoon heel dapper.

I can understand why the Vikings believed in storm giants. I keep having to remind myself that there is no intention behind this. It feels so angry. As if it wants to tear apart the cabin and carry me off into the night.

But young as I was, I suspected that a God who allows such cruelty wouldn't have cared about bringing it to an end. I

You can do it for I am one to believe. When I first met you, you wore a stain on your sleeveIt was a stain of strength, courage and warfare. You gave me strength, you encouraged my will to keep holding on. Some things we learn from others, yet most things of which we are born. I believe in you as you believed in me. I didn't give up and neither will you. With us in agreement, we will make it through!

Work that mojo, gray girl. Consider me a true believer now. Hallelujah.

I'm a half-demon princess. Sure. What's so hard to grasp about that?

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

You'll be with me, won't you?" "indeed." "Then what could go wrong?" Lord Sanabalis visibly grimaced. "You clearly do not believe in angry gods.