Quotes About Belief

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

The sun was shining, and there, right there on the side of the road, was a flower stand, a homemade wooden table covered with painted tins of lupine and cream-colored roses. For a few minutes on that sun-drenched road, I believed that God might be working her magic.

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.

there's always a hope, you never know.

Some things come true. They might come true in ways different than we might have predicted, but some things do come true

What Maddy has come to believe is that certain life circumstances make for people who walk with a psychic limp for all of their days. Never mind the progress they seem to make, peel back a few delicate layers and there it is: a stubborn doubting of worth; an inability to stand with conviction behind anything without wondering if they should be standing there at all; a sense that if they move in this direction, it's wrong; and if they move in that direction, that's wrong, too.

First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice.

Love does not have legs," he slowly read, his finger moving along. "It does not have arms. But it move mountains." He put the paper down at his side

Our own individual life history is also shaped that way. In large part, when you factor out fate, what we are is because of what we believe about ourselves. Wherever we are in the world, we mostly live in the small space between our ears.

You live your life, and you get to ask for things, and sometimes they are given to you.

some of us create our own prisons for ourselves, we fall into ways of being that we feel we can't change.

history is shaped by the belief systems of those who made it.

I step across any reflections that are too dark with great strides, and when I am in my right mind, I find life acceptable because it is eternal. You call that my dreaming. I call it my faith and my strength. No, nothing dies, nothing is lost, nothing ends, whatever you may say. —George Sand, in a letter to Delacroix

She prefers cats to dogs, which is almost worse than being a conservative.

She tries to be a good Christian. Jesus went around forgiving everyone, though her personal belief is that he went a little too far with that business.

specific miracle

This isn't a game for me. I love you, Ivy, and one day you're going to believe me.

This isn't some kind of game for me. I love you, Ivy Lyons, and one day you're going to believe me. - Tristan Carruthers -

Sometimes I think that love is one big fairy tale. I wonder if people who say they are in love, if – really – they've just talked themselves into it. They want it so badly, they kind of make it happen. They fake it until they start believing their own story. Maybe that's just sour grapes or something. Maybe because it doesn't happen to me, I don't want to think it happens to anyone else.

So what don't you get? The way people talk and act like they're crazy in love, and then, ding , suddenly they're not. It's like it was all just pretend. Like it's just a game. He crunched on an ice cube. Well, sometimes it is just a game. Then how are you supposed to believe someone when it isn't ?

Mrs. Schultz believed in beer the way his grandmother believed in the Republican party.

Portia was affected differently. She felt very quiet with happiness Oh, I just hope and pray, she said. And Mrs. Cheever walking lightly beside her, said: Well, I have a feeling, Portia, I have a feeling in my bones that your wish is going to come true. Do you, Aunt Minnehaha? Honestly? Cross your heart? I cross my heart, said Mrs. Cheever. Yes, indeed I do.

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God's will.

Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.