Quotes about Belief

They carried what was holy within them, for every man was a temple, and every prayer spoken could be heard by our Father above us.

She truly believed that she carried her own fate in the palm of her hand, as if destiny was nothing more than a green marble or a robin's egg, a trinket any silly girl could scoop up and keep. She believed that all you wanted, you would eventually receive, and that fate was a force which worked with you, not against you.

It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth.

Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.

For some, witchery was a choice, but not for them.

He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.

What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it can never happen.

Love wasn't rational; there was no proof that it even existed outside of people's imaginings.

But then you like to tempt fate, don't you? Don't worry, it will all work out

In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.

Do you think your mother came back? Shelby asks him. Definitely. She's a cardinal who lives in my backyard.

Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were contradictory. The human eye was not capable of true sight, for it was constrained by its own humanness, clouded by regret, and opinion, and faith.