Belief Quotes

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

When you say "Yes" to something, you include something you do want in your experience. When you say "No" to something, you include something you don't want in your experience.

The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.

No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least.

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.

Your 'Belief Window' is how you perceive and understand everything in your life... It frames all your views and influences the actions you take, but it can also be wrong or limited.

You cannot make a demand on your life that exceeds your belief about it. Your belief is creating a personal law. It’s not the truth, but a lie believed will act like a law until it’s neutralized.

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths.

We're in danger of losing an even more foundational belief of Christianity: that salvation is only possible through faith in Jesus Christ.

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.

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

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

Tomorrow's realities come from our beliefs today.

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

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

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 neutralizer to fear is self belief.

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.

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.

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

I don't know what I believe. I think there's a belief system, I'm just not sure what it is.

Belief is like plastic flowers, which look like flowers from far away. Trust is real rose. It has roots, and roots go deep into your heart and into your being.

My belief is that you should take stills of what doesn't seem to move, and take movies or videos of [what] does.

I have such a strong belief in women's ability to sustain each other.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

I have a big belief that whatever your passion is in life, pursue it to the fullest and try to be the best at it.

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock

A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.

When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.

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.

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

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

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

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

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.

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.

The Eucharist becomes a microcosmic moment of belief and power in which we say we believe in the real presence of God in Jesus, in this bread, and in this wine.

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.