Quotes About Belief

Indeed, thought will go on fooling them into the belief that more of the same will ultimately become something new.

He should have known that the Irish, in spite of a handful of anti-clerical writers, were by nature priest-servers.

We have moved away from traditional Judeo-Christian values toward a worldview that lets us self-select values based on whether they serve our self-interests. Like a child loose in a candy store, we pick our values, we determine our own fate, we captain our own ship.

I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD" (Psalm 27:13 – 14). Even

A heart filled with faith, hope, and love leads to a righteous, obedient life.

There is a God we want, and there is a God who is. They are not the same God. The turning point of our lives is when we stop seeking the God we want and start seeking the God who is.

To protect our self-image, we kid, trick, and fool ourselves into believing the visible you is somehow real. To see ourselves as we really are, we must acknowledge our inability to do so without God's help.

Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." John 3:3

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

Faith with proof is no faith at all.

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.

Belief is half of all healing.

Who cares even if I didn't?!" Conor shouted back. "They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary . Oh, please, please, save me from the berries !" The monster looked at him quizzically. How strange , it said. The words you say tell me you are scared of the berries, but your actions seems to suggest otherwise.

He was greedy and rude and bitter, but he was still a healer. The parson, though, what was he? He was nothing . Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most. He believed selfishly and fearfully. And it took the lives of his daughters.

Life does not have to go how you think it will," Tomasz says. "Not even when you are very sure what is going to happen.

But I don't care what you think, not about these things anyway. If you don't think they're real or important or you think that we'll all grow out of this nonsense, well, that's not really my business. I can't tell you what's real for you. But in return, you can't say what's real for me either. I get to choose. Not you.

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

No," I say firmly. "If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.

Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt. That's what teachers always say, Conor said. No one believes them either.

And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't do together -

Do you believe there's hope at the end?" "No, no, I dont, but im still going, you coming with me?

Will the world end in darkness because it is foretold? Or because there will be those who believe it so strongly they will make it so?

Do you believe there's hope at the end?" I ask. "No," she says simply, looking away. "No, I don't, but I'm still going.

Belief is half of healing.