Belief Quotes
I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.
All over the world, belief in the supernatural has authorised the sacrifice of people to propitiate bloodthirsty gods, and the murder of witches for their malevolent powers.
Is there a spiritual element to creativity? Hell, yes. Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or feel.
The America I was born and raised in intersected with people of all ethnicities and beliefs and that, coupled with my parents' instilling of good values, made me the individual I am now.
The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.
The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.
I want to see a new system. I believe that the credit scoring system is broken. That's my belief.
The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. —Elana's father
Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.
As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.
When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.
To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.
The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.
Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.
Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.
No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.
Christ instructs us to stand up bravely for our beliefs... He asks us to let our lights shine.
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people
Everybody has an opinion. I think everybody has the right to believe whatever they want. I don't ever cast judgment on someone's belief system.
In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.
Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.
I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.
Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.
Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.
My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.
I consciously focus on my blessings and remember what has gotten me through my past struggles: my faith and the belief that everything happens for a reason.
The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.
The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.
I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
