#belief

Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help." I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help to come so fast. Miracles aren't for the likes of me, didn't Nestor know that? Only the nobility gets them. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#speechless #stunned #nobility

I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble." "But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#gods #occult #encouragement

He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to "believe" had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. "I want to believe," he heard himself say. ↗

— Dan Brown

#belief #faith #religion #faith

You take away whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#faith #god #religion #faith

We are not defined by belief or by faith nor religion.We are the family of God. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#faith #family #god #religion #faith

The first and most important person you must believe in is yourself. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#self-awareness #self-esteem #self-help #self-belief

An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust. ↗

— Barbara W. Tuchman

#hope #hopelessness #self-belief

Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival. ↗

— Tobsha Learner

#faith #inspiration #faith

We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#bravery #freedom

We would all believe in God if he served our every whim. Belief is not about an easy life or even truth. Belief is something you have regardless. ↗

— Jessica Shirvington

#god #life