Quotes about Belief

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

I got up every day thinking the sun was out there shining, and it could just as well shine on me as any other human person.

You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep limping around on that crutch? It's the other way around, it's what you *do* that makes you who you are.

As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing...he did not claim that God moves in mysterious ways. Instead he seemed to believe, as she did, though they never could have discussed it, that everything else is in motion while God does not move at all. God sits still, perfectly at rest, the silver dollar at the bottom of the well, the question.

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what to hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

The wonder to me now is that I thought my life worth saving...Desperate to save myself in a river of people saving themselves. And if they chanced to look down and see me struggling underneath them, they saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious.

So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord.

Scientists are not like other people, sir. We cannot slam our portals. We have to follow evidence where it leads, even if no one likes that place. Even if it suggests that all we have ever believed might be mistaken.

I'm always looking at the dialectic between the truth we believe exists outside ourselves and the truth we invent for ourselves.

Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comic. Not to be confused with real life.