Quotes About Belief

I know—I knew it then—but I didn't believe it. Belief and knowledge aren't the same thing. Belief is much more powerful.

Belief and knowledge aren't the same thing. Belief is much more powerful.

Because even that little boy knows that love can't be earned. The only true love is grace. All else is a counterfeit.

Love yourself. Respect yourself. And have faith. The older I get, the more I see that things tend to work out. Not always, but usually. Just not in our time.

I had my own skeptic's thoughts about God and free will, but that was a discussion for another time. The idea of human beings in power acting out of anything except self-interest, however, was absurd to me. "Are you being naive?" I asked her. "No

and sometimes we have to take it on faith that we are actually making progress, getting closer to our destination. Faith. Four months

Never put a question mark where God puts a period.

The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is that vampires are allergic to bull shit.

Who you gonna believe, bitch? Me? or your lying eyes?

Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.

Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to take it or leave it, in whole or in part; believers in astrology, Marxism and virgin birth abound. But "no one can become a scientist unless he presumes that the scientific doctrine and method are fundamentally sound and that their ultimate premises can be unquestionably accepted.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have … "an ambition of transcendence

the utilitarian test for whether the suggestion made proves to be "good in the way of belief." Granted that hearing what such a being has to say may change your wants, nevertheless you test those new wants and that purported truth in the same way: by living them, trying them out in everyday life, seeing whether they make you and yours happier. Suppose that a source which you believe to

I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.

Maybe we're just seeing a tiny corner of reality—the corner we want to see. But if somehow we could "turn" and look at what's behind us—we might see something so strange, we wouldn't understand it in a million years.

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