Quotes About Belief

have to be certain of the truth. The whole truth . . . the real truth . . . about eternal life.

She often told herself that story, easing herself into sleep, drifting off as she patched together the ghostly memory of someone in whose real existence she hardly believed any more.

I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in."—Neil Gaiman

Christian faith keeps reminding us that death is the doorway to eternal life,

Wells-Barnett's experience with the ways that lynching victims were criminalized, and her progressive belief in the ability of persons to change for the better, gave her another perspective.

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.

Men hear what they like and invent the rest.

People belong together to each other only as long as they believe. He stopped believing.

How some victims don't have even a whisper of no inside them. Because they don't believe the life they have is theirs to save.

If you guys can't make it, what chance do the rest of us have?

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too—that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe.

But I'm not sure I believe in wars anymore. They only make ghosts and they don't change anything.

still couldn't believe that Kibii could cross the most momentous threshold of his life without my hearing a whisper of it. I scanned the area for Buller, wanting to be gone as quickly as possible, but didn't see him. I made off anyway, and had reached the edge of the ridge, readying myself for the steep descent, when I heard Kibii calling my name.

That's the saddest piece as I see it, and have over and over. How some victims don't have even a whisper of no inside them. Because they don't believe the life they have is theirs to save. (seven) All the way to the village, I feel like a shaken-up snow globe, sharp flecks of memory colliding head on.

I don't exactly know, but it feels important to go there. It feels important to go everywhere one can and see all there is to see and try to understand it. Everything's changing so fast. I want to believe in something while there's still time. I want to tell the truth, even when it's difficult. And I want to find the story I'm meant to write.

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too—that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up. But

During an interview; Then McLain returns to the impact on Markham and Blixen of the death of Finch Hatton. "You know, there's a line at the end of my book that goes, 'This time with Denys would fade, and it would last forever.' That's something I actually believe about love. Sometimes we don't get to keep the people we love the most and who change us the most. That's an unromantic, uncommercial view of love. But to me it feels absolutely true.

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He's stopped believing.

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too—that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

sometimes you have to start there, with almost nothing. And hope for everything anyway.

He had writing the way other people had religion

I think that's why they have so many religious freaks in the airports...they even keep the flowers behind the counter. 'Go, go my children...be fruitful and annoy.

Letting ourselves be loved by God is the place where we stumble upon trust.