Belief Quotes
Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.
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.
I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.
What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.
Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--
Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.
You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.
...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.
You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.
These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.
What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?
You could try to believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided what you were going to believe and that was that. Whether you liked it or not.
My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.
The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.
Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.
I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.
IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?" YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.
What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.
If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions!
I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.
People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.
Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change
God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.
She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.
People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.
You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .
The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
