Quotes About Belief

Jess believed, that she thought he was the best. It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or at home, but it was a genuine kind of best. He kept the knowledge of it buried inside himself like a pirate treasure. He was rich, very rich, but no one could know about it for now except his fellow outlaw, Julia Edmunds.

Katherine Paterson

She looked at him as if she were going to argue, then seemed to change her mind. "It's crazy, isn't it?" She shook her head. "You have to believe it, but you hate it. I don't have to believe it, and I think it's beautiful." She shook her head again. "It's crazy.

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

Dammit, Trotter. Don't try to make a stinking Christian out of me.

Santiago, my ancestor, was the last man to touch this," he said with awe. "Before I uncover the treasure, I want to say that I believe God led me to the Montoya rancho for a reason. Without your help, I would never have found the treasure. Whatever is inside this box, however great the wealth, I will share it with all of you." The

We're all broken, Laura. And we're all looking for someone to blame. God's the easiest target. We let ourselves believe that if He loved us, things would be perfect. But we both know that's not true.

Always give God a chance to work.

We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

one need not believe in something for it to happen anyway.

That I was a success is not apparent now; that I would be a success was not apparent then. Within

Honors ennoble those on whom they're bestowed, but they also ease the guilt of those whose commands made them necessary in the first place. A medal is a mirror, reflecting a glory that we force ourselves to believe in.

suspect that we do not know any more than the people of the past did, but only think somewhat differently.

No one quite believed that freelancing and being a mother qualified as actual work.

I didn't believe in love at first sight. In fact, as I would soon be reminded by seemingly every literate person in New York, I had written and published more than a few poems lampooning the very idea of it. But one need not believe in something for it to happen anyway.

No one who'd actually been in the Pocket would believe the explanation, but that didn't matter. We were symbols now, no longer in control of our own stories.

Are we at war with fate?

And he went on in his quiet voice with his eloquent interpretation of the ancient words: "For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid. Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar.

There seems to be something magical about printer's ink. Once people read a story in a newspaper, most of them believe that story is true, even if it's retracted.

Bib Block was sure that in any part of the country at all, whenever the name of this road was mentioned, people's hearts pivoted like Moslems to the east and flopped over. Sooner of later, he believed, at one stage of the journey or another, all roads led to the New Jersey Turnpike.

Set your wings upon the sea wind Set your eyes upon the stream Feel the billow of the updraft And believe in your dream Know the mercy of these waters Know the safety of the sky Hear the voices in the distance And believe - they will not lie.

No one is too small for anything. You just have to think big!

Without hope it is nearly impossible to live. Hope is the air that our spirits breathe.