Belief Quotes

Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon, a cup, a bucket or a barrel.

How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?

Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.

Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn't lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

When the thick layers of dark clouds occupy the sky, if there is no wind at all to sweep them away, start blowing with courage and belief

An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!

Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

only that which is deeply felt can change us. Rational arguments alone cannot penetrate the layers of fear and conditioning that comprise our crippling belief system.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others.

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

Roberto Martinez's belief is unbelievable

There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate.

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.

You have to believe in yourself. Belief is one of the biggest things in football. If you believe you can win the Premier League then of course it can happen.

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself.

At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.

Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

I am in politics because I have a strong belief in the equal worth of every child.

You should never die for your beliefs, because what if you're wrong?

Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.

No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.

What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.

Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.

Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked awful, but I always look awful in the mirror. I keep myself going with the firm belief that my real face is much better looking.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.