Belief Quotes

My past conduct was so transparent and so honest that when my enemies spread rumours about me nobody believed them.

Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

At its Greek root, "to believe" simply means "to give one's heart to." Thus, if we can determine what it is we give our heart to, then we will know what it is we believe.

If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence--and punishes those who do.

If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie.

Every day when I open my eyes it is a leap of vibrational faith into something new

For where belief dwells, the spider may not stir, neither by day nor by night.

The most purely free decision one can make—and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth—is believing in something without evidential knowledge.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand

We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

The choice to believe is yours. It’s the only thing that truly is.

Ironically, the only people anyone believes these days are the skeptics.

To give value to others, you have to begin by valuing yourself.

God wants us to believe in something bigger and better than ourselves.

I guess sometimes the truth just isn't worth believing... Personally, I've always felt that life's too short for truth. I'm just here to be entertained.

Our fated untainted soul gives us free reign, only doth backward pull our clouded minds when we ourselves falsely protect from pain.

Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.

Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.

If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact.

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.

I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.

The trouble with believing conspiracies is you start seeing them everywhere, right? And everything becomes a part of them. But, of course, the trouble with not believing them is becoming a dupe.

Believe in your dreams or don't dream at all.

I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.

The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become.

The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.

I'm a strong opponent of all religious belief.(Conversations pg 96)

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

I don't believe in God, I only believe in Al Pacino, and that's the truth.

Believing isn't a choice... belief is an involuntary response to something you've learned or experienced.

The ribboned gallons that rule us like beliefs rooted in single experiences.

I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

Be careful of the lie you believe about yourself, sooner or later, you will be convinced of it.

Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.

It is not what happens to you or for you that makes you grateful. It's how you respond to what is happening, that shows your belief about gratitude.

I'd rather believe in something and be wrong, than believe in nothing and be wrong.

We are not defined by belief or by faith nor religion.We are the family of God.

The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

Nothing is unbelievable, just expand your vision.

I strongly believe in after life because life down here is too costly.

My fear is not death. I only fear GOD so as all of you should.

Knowing isn't always believing.

Love and kindness are the hammer and chisel that gently chip through barriers and long-held beliefs to reveal the magnificent soul contained within every human.

[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing.

We must only believe.

Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.