belief Quotes

Mrs. Thomas told me that God made my hair red on purpose, and I’ve never cared about Him since.

“John, my child, you have been my friend now many years, and yet did you ever know me to do any without good cause? I may err—I am but man; but I believe in all I do.”

It is so hard to accept at once any abstract truth, that we may doubt such to be possible when we have always believed the ‘no’ of it;

“No one would listen or believe me, because everyone thought me mad; but you, who must know that I am not, listen to me, and believe me so afterwards if you will.”

“You persist in your incredulity, Edmond,” continued Faria. “My words have not convinced you. I see you require proofs.”

His mother holds, I know, the secret belief that some of our brave friend’s spirit has passed into him.

What! you do not believe in God when he is striking you dead? you will not believe in him, who requires but a prayer, a word, a tear, and he will forgive?

If Jurgis did not believe it, he could try it, said the little Jew—let them meet at a certain house on the morrow and make a test.

“I have a strong faith in ghosts: I have a conviction that they can, and do, exist among us!”