Quotes about Belief

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

There is no people so brutish or barbarous that they do not know that they must believe in a god, even if they do not know precisely what god they should worship.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.

Still, I wanted to believe; indeed I longed to; and, in the end, how much of belief comes from longing?

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

God is a cluster of neurons.

you could believe you were living virtuously and also murder people if you were a fanatic.

It was true, I took too much for granted; I trusted fate, back then.

Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. I refuse to say this. If it means I will have to forgive Mrs. Smeath or else go to Hell when I die, I'm ready to go. Jesus must have known how hard it is to forgive, that was why he put this in. He was always putting in things that were impossible to do really, such as giving away all your money.

Falling in love,' we said; 'I fell for him.' We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion; so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. 'God is love,' they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.