He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.
So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.
We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.
If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
I found out I'd spent my whole life believing things that weren't necessarily accurate. My sisters' memories of certain events are entirely different from mine.
A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.
It is not our believing of the Gospel that makes it true. It exists as independent, true Truth.
Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.
But to those who kept saying
"It can't be done,"
Never are the victories
Or the honors won.
But, rather,
By the believing, doing kind,
While the doubters
Watched from far behind.
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
Believing in something and being a part of something you believe in and watching it work and coming from it.
Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?
No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.
My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.
Believing something doesn't change who you are. Neither does rejecting something you once believd in.
Believing that you cannot have something is the same thing as not desiring to have it, for it produces the same result.
Once you identify yourself as believing something, you open yourself to ridicule.
What you're trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and so you've got to discover them for the first time.
We've been duped into believing we don't have 25 minutes to have something change our life. We don't have 2. You know, we're tweeting. We're running around. We're 15 words or less.
There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.
What was great about 'Cold Feet' is that although it flew off down all different avenues, it was really based on believing the reality of the characters.
Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the power to go and sin no more.
On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.
I have been receiving calls from all quarters since the release of 'Madras.' I need to thank audiences for believing in me and making this film successful.
I am convinced that there are few, if any, American people that could even start believing or understanding what living in a socialist country does to a person.
We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
The fact I'm the third female Prime Minister, I never grew up believing my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come.
I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I.
Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.
As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.
My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.
In Canada, there's a surprising worship of managerialism versus ownership and wealth creation. There's a real problem in this country with believing that management is the answer to our problems.
My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
I started really believing and understanding what it meant to be a follower of Jesus when I was probably in high school sometime. From there, just trying to draw on my faith since then.
I am a believing and practising Muslim - but I am also a social democrat.
I will just keep working hard and keep believing in myself.
There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.
Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture.
To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.
I knew I had to just keep believing, never lose sight of my purpose. As a fighter, you need to be delusional in a way. It keeps you going.
Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.
Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
I don't support gay marriage. I'm just not there, as far as believing in my heart that we should change 2,000 years of social policy in favor of a redefinition of the family.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.
The belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won't spill your coffee!
DACA led to a mass influx of illegal immigrant children crossing the Mexican border into the U.S. who came believing they would likely be able to stay.
When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
Rappers on their sophomores...actin' like they boss lords.
Fame's such a funny thing for sure when niggas start believing all those encores.
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
Beloved, it is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer.
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