Quotes About Belief

Instinct," he told her, "is most often right.

That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.

I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon

He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.

I'm sorry. I'm used to people objecting to things because they think I can't do them or shouldn't do them. It didn't occur to me that you might have a real reason.

He does not require that we live a perfect life. He only requires that we try to live as He wills. The only way to fail Him is by giving up.

you can do one of two things. You can blame God for your misery or you can turn to Him and draw strength from His love. He is always there for us.

What blinds people the most to controlling behavior is the belief that the person who consistently defines them truly loves them.

Verbal abuse: Words that attack or injure, that cause one to believe the false, or that speak falsely of one.

In a verbally abusive relationship the partner may recognize some problems but may believe that they can be worked out. Over time, however, as the abuse intensifies or changes in kind, the partner may

I already know (or believe—which comes to the same thing in my Catholic worldview) that daydreaming doesn't make things up. It sees things. Claims things, twirls them around, takes a good look. Possesses them. Embraces them.Makes something of them. Makes sense. Or music. How restful it is, how full of motion. My first paradox.

Faith in our time can seem like signing on the dotted line of a prefab doctrine composed of absurdities.

Do you like her' ''Of course!' What a question! Like asking her if she believe in God.

If you hold a four-leaf shamrock in your left hand at dawn on St. Patrick's Day you get what you want very much but haven't wished for.

While we may believe the circumstances of our lives have led us to think in a certain way, it is more accurate to say that the way we think is affecting the circumstances of our lives.

If you find that you are a worrier, you might want to consider that the more you worry about each specific thing, the more likely you'll bring it into reality.

the exclusive imagining of God as male has deeply wounded women. Our immersion in these images convinced us that we are excluded from the divine, that we are inferior to men, that we are in need of a male savior, and that to name and imagine God in any other way than he has always been known is blasphemy.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

There is a joy...in creating surprising insight into a character. The characters in my books become, for me, good friends, extended family members, or the brothers and sisters I never had. Books affect lives, especially children's lives, because children have a genuine belief in the truth of stories, the ultimate gift for the writer. It's a shared gift—from writer to reader and back again.

There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

No you haven't, or you would never have been persuaded by anything your father and I and Grams Brennan ever said.

really be suspicious.

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.