Quotes About Belief

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Have I your word? yes, you have my word. But, you dont believe me. no, mens promises to women are easily made and even more easily broken.

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's real rebellion.

Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion

the number-one rule in making shit up: Make it so unbelievable that people have to believe it.

But as I grew up, I felt the tension one surely must feel when being simultaneously taught the importance of a specific dogma and the importance of freedom from dogma.

I have often wondered why I've survived. Yet I know the answer. It's luck. Luck is a greater factor than anyone who succeeds ever wants to believe. The idea that one is destined to be the person who remains standing, the person smart enough to make all the money, to retain the beauty, is far more seductive. If there is good luck, there is bad luck. That is a reality no one wants to contemplate. But it is reality. I am merely lucky to be alive.

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.

Anche se tendiamo a credere il contrario, la gioia si condivide meno della sventura.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.

Ultimately, brands are built by people who passionately believe in their brands. Indeed, many of the world's best brands can be linked to a single person: Howard Schultz created Starbucks, Steve Jobs built Apple, Pleasant Roland formed American Girl, Richard Branson developed Virgin, and Phil Knight was the driving force behind Nike. Brand builders understand and believe in the power of brands.     Tim

Billy didn't need someone to pour him his drinks, he needed someone to tell him that living isn't poetry. It isn't prayer. To tell him and convince him. And none of us could do it because every one of us thought that as long as Billy believed it was, as long as he kept himself believing it, then maybe it could still be true.

There was... her capacity to believe. There was as well her capacity to be deceived, since you can't have one without the other...

Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?

I don't believe something.

I don't listen when someone says god. I don't want to talk about god.

I'll never get over it, I'm going to defend it forever.

Jung achava que a religião com demasiada frequência acentua o bem com a negação do mal. O mal não desaparece, apenas mergulha no inconsciente para ser projetado em outras pessoas.

Os deuses de uma era se tornam os demônios da seguinte ou, quando não têm destino semelhante, acabam em ambiente mais seguro nos contos de fadas ou, como nos dias de hoje, em histórias em quadrinhos. Uma onda de iconiclastia comumente se forma a cada mudança das eras astrológicas, e os objetos ou 'as coisas' antes venerados são feitos em pedaços por escavações arqueológicas séculos depois.

Scarlet, when aware that she was consciously asking her friend for advice and support, felt guilty, for she had come to believe that advice and support were commodities for which you paid professionals, rather as you paid prostitutes for love and bought your vegetables instead of growing them yourself.