Quotes About Belief

Storytelling typically happens blindly fast. When we believe we're at risk, we tell ourselves a story so quickly that we don't even know that we're doing it.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. —WILLIAM JAMES What

mistake most of us make in our crucial conversations is we believe that we have to choose between telling the truth and keeping a friend. We begin believing in the Fool's Choice from an early age.

You never really know. Lately Kevin has been bothering himself with the idea that nothing is certain, nothing can be proven. Not one thing, not in all the world. The sun will rise tomorrow. Prove it. The sun rose this morning. Prove it. The sun is in the sky. Prove it. There's a sun at all. Prove it. The world is like a box of Kleenex, every doubt pulling another along behind it. You can always find a new reason to distrust the facts.

I think you're confusing God with a genie.

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

I'm chasing after that Holy Shit effect. If this sounds arrogant, that's because it is. If you don't believe in your own greatness, no one else will. You're limited only by your doubts, your fears, and your desire to fit in rather than stand out. And there's room in this world for all of us to stand out.

Every citizen should 'remain free in his religion, and no man be molested or questioned on the subject of Divine worship'.

Don't you see? The things we once loved do not change, only our belief in them... You are left with the only things that any of us have in the end. The things we keep inside of ourselves, that grow out of us, that tell us who we are.

I knew that whatever I chose would be the wrong thing. I knew that until I truly believed that whatever I did was the exact right thing, I'd keep doing the wrong thing.

And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

Hassan returned the smile. Except his didn't look forced. And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too

That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.

Do you even know how strong God has made you? she said. How strong and good He has made you?

Her ÅŸeye, devasa olas?l?k oranlar?na raÄŸmen, kontrol edemediÄŸin bir dünyan?n, kaybetmeyi kald?ramayaca??n tek ÅŸeyi elinden almayaca??na dair, son derece tekinsiz ve ak?l almaz aptall?kta bir inanç duymak.

God Has a reason

That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

I pray the sea knows this. Inshallah.

Znaš li ti, uop?e, koliko te je Bog napravio jakom? Koliko jakom i dobrom te je napravio?

shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe first.

Piss on the beards of all those self- righteous monkeys. They do nothing but thumb their rosaries and recite a book written in a tongue they don't understand.

A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose.