Quotes about believer

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“I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavouring to make our fellow creatures happy.”

“I believe whatever doesn´t kill you simply makes you… stranger.”

“I’m no expert with females”—the others
rolled their eyes at that—“but I believe an attempted decapitation communicates the
need for some space.”

“Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.”

“Have I mentioned that I hate it when you're right?", she asked instead.
Alanna shook her head. "No, I don't believe you have. As far as I could tell, you never thought I was right.”

“You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.”

“That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or even just didn't believe in having a TV set, it was up to their kids to protect them.”

“I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.”

“All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.”

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”

“Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded.”

“And once again I believe that nothing that's important really becomes lost. We just delude ourselves, thinking that we own the things, the moments and the others. Still with me are all the dead persons who I loved, all the friends who turned away, all the happy days that faded. I lost nothing but the illusion that everything could be mine forever.”

“Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God”

“He who believes needs no explanation.”

“I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.”

“When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.”

“I believe there is little you cannot do once you set your mind to it.”

“If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

“She believed, of course… because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”

“You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.”

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”

“every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.”

“Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.”

“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people”

“Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?”

“As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.”

“I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…”

“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.”

“Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?”

“Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there….”

“I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.”

“Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now.”

“It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is”

“When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.”

“I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.”

“Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.”

“Believe everything you read”

“They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.'
And?'
Chaos theory throws it right out the window.”

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”

“It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it.”

“Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.”

“I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.”

“People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”

“We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.”

“I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another.
--Mallory Pike”

“If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.”

“The especial genius of Woman I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.”

“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”

“We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.”

“Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet… Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.”

“I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.”

“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe remember you can achieve.”

“If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.”

“It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.”

“Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.”

“Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.”

“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”

“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”

“… All the shops have been smashed open. There was a whole bunch of people across the street helping themselves to musical instruments, can you believe that?"

"Yeah," said Rincewind. "… Luters, I expect.”

“I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.”

“If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”

“I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure, whether in government, business or personal affairs.

I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.

I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond, that character—not wealth or power or position—is of supreme worth.

I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free.

I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God, named by whatever name, and that the individual's highest fulfillment, greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with His will.

I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might.”

“I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.”

“No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.”

“You are old beyond your years Zoeybird. Believe in yourself and you will find a way. But remember darkness does not always equate to evil just like light does not always bring good.”

“I believe in using words, not fists… I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.”

“Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?”

“I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

“No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.”

“A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.”

“Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.”

“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”

“Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"

Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”

“We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”

“But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”

“Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.”

“Adiyogi’s legacy offers you the licence to believe in the god of your choice, or not to believe at all. And if you do not find a god to your taste, it allows you the freedom to create one. That is how the Indian subcontinent arrived at an exuberant 330 million gods and goddesses at last count! To see the divine in a tree, rock or elephant is not considered absurd because every speck of creation is seen as a portal to the ultimate reality. These”

“Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!”

“The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.”

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

“I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.”

“Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”

“I still believe that all you need is love.”

“Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.”

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

“People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often believe what their friends tell them.
They always believe what they tell themselves.”

“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”

“It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.”

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”

“Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.”

“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”

“I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.”

“So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.”

“When you love someone as much as that, you don't believe they can die. You think your love protects them.”

“The doubters said,
"Man can not fly,"
The doers said,
"Maybe, but we'll try,"
And finally soared
In the morning glow
While non-believers
Watched from below.”

“It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.”

“Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.”

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

“You have to believe in it to get it…”