Quotes About Belief

During the siege of Panama, he trailed behind his comrades, picking up shreds of purple wool which had once been blue. The fighting was incredibly vicious, but there was a deeper quality to the havoc, an ineffable wiping of belief. Though he wore his name like a sealed pocket, it was picked when he passed into the Cup of Gold, city of burnished lips.

Yo repasaba el álbum de fotografías porque mi papá me había contado que cuando la gente muere se queda a vivir en el momento más feliz de su existencia, y que eso es el cielo.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

El padre Blas Valera (cuzqueño) dice que cuando cantaban los gallos, los indios creían que lloraban por la muerte del inca, por lo cual llamaron al gallo hualpa.

He was playing a game he did not believe he could win, for stakes he could not bear to lose.

Y qué voy a hacer yo ahora. Quién va a creerme desde mañana que nadie tiene que lidiarme, que yo soy el que vive aquí adentro y sabe cómo funcionan las cosas.

aunque mi papá no crea en la nostalgia ni en el rencor «porque el tiempo no existe», y el pasado está a punto de pasar, y el presente es el futuro: 3:00 p.m.

Sorry, Roy, I just don't trust you enough to believe that you lied.

Hope?! Hope is a bit desperate, isn't it? Hope is right below wishful thinking and right above performing a rain dance.

For a time she had tried religion. It came in capsules, little doses of Crucifixation, sold on the streets of the old neighborhood of Central Station.

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.

A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder.

I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

We walk by faith and not by sight – not because we are blind, but because faith gives us the courage to face or fears and puts those fears in a context that makes them less frightful. We walk by faith and not by sight because there are places to go that cannot be seen and the scope of our vision is too small for our strides. Faith is not a denial of facts – it is a broadening of focus. It does not deny the hardness of guitar strings, it plucks them into a sweetness of sound

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

Faith is a matter of the will as much as it is of the intellect. I wanted to believe in Jesus. My friend wanted to believe in himself. In spite of how convincing my reason was, my reason was not compelling.

And while reason may be found within His love, no reason would be able to contain his love. […] It is possible that the evidence of His divinity lies in that love – that in light of love, miracles seem sort of unremarkable. If God can love me, the rest will follow.

Sometimes we don't know where God is going to lead us; but God already knows. It's not our job to worry about that. It's just our job to follow.

The same moon is still up there. The same stars that Abraham saw... And I know that the same God who put them there and made them shine, He's still there too... And I know that God does not lie. ...We don't need to judge God's way of doing stuff. It gets done.

Forgive us our fantasies. It's all we have.

Overconfident investors generally believe that they have more knowledge and information than they actually have. As a result, they tend to trade too much and underperform the market.

It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.