Belief Quotes

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief.

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

One has to be realistic. One’s concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. That’s very important.

Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.

Any one can heal who believes that he can, and who will take the time to put that belief in motion through the Law.

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts

Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.

He who knows most believes the least.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.

One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.

Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

Belief is the magic key that unlocks your dreams.

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

Self belief will always push fear away, but you need to always practice self belief otherwise fear will come back and tap you on the shoulder.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.