Belief Quotes

We dwell in shadow or in sunlight . . . according to our belief.

The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.

People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant.

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

What you see is filtered through your beliefs. You rarely see "reality." You see your version of it.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

I have a strongly held belief that one of the reasons that Amazon has been successful is because we do not obsess over competitors. Instead we obsess over customers.

Loving is half of believing.

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

Your belief system saturates the space around you.

The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

This is the belief of the Left: You negotiate with evil, and get tough with your allies

That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

We can believe as we want, but we should not force our beliefs on others.

There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.

Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.

Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.

Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.

Stress is a state of mind and if you realize that you will find that it's something you can deal with. It is my belief that stress occurs not because of the conditions of the world.

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

The neutralizer to fear is self belief.

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

There is such a belief in the squad that we could really do something.

There's no unemployment insurance if you don't have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.