Belief Quotes

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.

The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.

I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.

One needs to be right before getting righteous.

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be a team player.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

Miracles seldom occur in the lives of those who do not consider them possible.

The only force that can sustain true and consistent courage is some form of spiritual belief that values like honor, duty, loyalty and integrity above the status, power, money and even security.

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

I have faced many different obstacles in my life, and have always maintained a strong belief that no matter the circumstances, I could overcome those obstacles.

If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.

I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

Having faith, beliefs, and convictions is a great thing, but your life is measured by the actions you take based upon them.

What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.

Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

When you're through learning, you're through.

The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.

From a young age I had learned to get over--to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.