Quotes About Belief

Sometimes we are reminded: All of us live steadfastly in that moment, the one between hope and the exercise of God's will.

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

She crossed herself and started to pray in that loose, easy way Roman Catholics do: 'Holy Mary, pray for us now and in the hour of our death … Merciful Jesus

She was opening the window as high as the sash would go – that's one of their superstitions, something to do with letting the spirit go freely. They do it.

She was the miracle I was trying to hold on to.

Love. Forgiveness. Commitment. Faith. Hope. They are simple things with yes or no answers. You love or you don't. You believe or you don't. You forgive or you don't.

You're not broken, Dylan. I know you're not.

That man smokes a pipe, and that man drinks liquor—but I do believe he is a Christian!

Those who are waiting are waiting very actively. They know that what they are waiting for is growing from the ground on which they are standing. . . . That's the secret. The secret of waiting is the faith that the seed has been planted, that something has begun. Active waiting means to be present fully to the moment in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it. . . . Waiting, then, is not passive.

If you think you are powerless, then you are

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men (page 80).

Gabe, did you pray?' 'Sort of.' 'Me too. Do you believe?' 'No. Do you?' 'No.' 'I don't believe,' said Gabriel, 'But I have faith, if you know what I mean.' 'What in?' 'I don't know, life, carrying on, I suppose.' 'Yes.

I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life...and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.

The human problem, as Watts sees it, is the attempt to gain control of the "streaming," a habitual tension that sets up a chronic frustration, the belief that force or effort or will can solve our difficulties.

She woke up and realized she had forgotten the definition of the word 'impossible.' She decided it must not have been that important.

J'ai la foi en l'humain en autant que l'humain reconnait ce qu'il y a de bon en lui.

Place your life in the hands of Christ and follow him that you do not perish (2 Nephi 11:6).

You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.

Each man creates god in his own image.

One final thought. In the years leading up to my trial, whenever I was caught in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the highway leading to my cottage, creeping along behind a battered, rust eaten pick-up truck with a sticker on its rear bumper that read JESUS SAVES, I used to think don't count on it, buster. Now I am no longer sure.

0.00000001% of what's happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

Tomorrow will be better." But what if it's not?" I asked. Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.