Quotes About Belief

What was it that Napoleon said, my lady? 'Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

Julia, we are all children at Christmastime." "You are not," I pointed out. He gave me a shadowy smile. "I think you told me once I was born old.

If you really believed that God preserved you in order to see this scheme to fruition, you are even more delusional than I first thought," I said in considerable exasperation. "It is impossible to argue with a mind that does not admit scientific fact and relies instead upon dogma delivered by the hand of an invisible author.

religion was as intimate as lovemaking and ought to be as private.

Be brave. You have everything you need," I murmured to no one in particular. "Everything indeed." Excelsior!

My father had once famously stated in Parliament that religion was as intimate as lovemaking and ought to be as private.

Oh, yes! Some scholars believe the motif was used as a means of illustrating the Egyptian belief in resurrection. It is an obvious parallel with the butterfly's own metamorphosis, is it not?

You don't believe the public should have access to the accumulation of human knowledge? To the accomplishment of art and exploration?

Stay on the right path. If what you want is meant to be, then it will be.

Everything is going to be all right. Just give it time, and you'll see.

Try not to worry. It will all work out. You'll see.

Our job is to take care of those things within our control, then we are to leave the rest to God. All of this worrying won't change your circumstances. Doing something about the things in your control will.

You just keep doing what your heart tells you to do. That doesn't mean things will end how you want, but they will end how they should.

Truth is a slippery concept. It changes shape according to who's speaking it and it never looks the same to any two people.

Just because it turned out bad, doesn't mean it wasn't meant.

The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.

They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.

The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. And fate gives love some authority. Like it's been stamped with approval from above, if you believe in above. A godly green light. Some destined significance .

Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.

It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story on false assumptions. You could make truths out of untruths and untruths out of truths. Until you spoke them, really said them out loud or checked for sure, you may not have known which were which.

I had let want in, opened the door ever so slightly. But want without the belief you can get what you want is pointless. You have to hope, so I let that in too. You have to. To want things and go for them and believe, even in impossible situations...Hope was what you had when you had nothing else. Hope was the perfect shiny top on the Christmas tree, the glowing halo of every wish, the endless beacon of a lighthouse bringing tormented ships home at last.

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessary the truth.