Belief Quotes - Page 16

In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believing what they wished to believe.

Arrian

Spirituality is a universal currency. It is part of every religion, every faith, and every person. Everybody has a belief system.

Your patterns of thought, existing bodies of knowledge, beliefs, predispositions, etc. are the 'stuff of your mental universe'. We are always subject to the power of our mental inertia. The waves in our mental oceans can never be magically stilled, and are therefore always impacting our new beliefs, even when we become scrutinizing adults. It is simply impossible to 'wipe the slate clean' and start over. These effects remain with us throughout our entire lives. Even the beliefs that we later discard are difficult to completely negate, and leave their own residual effects.

...definitely believe that, there's got to be a spark to a place...to make it feel like a home...

Isabella koldras

Take care,' said Delaura. 'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.''Saint Thomas said it, and I will be guided by him,' said the Abbess: '"One must not believe demons even when they speak the truth.

Gabriel García Márquez

But his doubts were again coming back to him; when you needed a miracle to gain belief, it means that you are incapable of believing. There is no need for the Almighty to prove His existence.

We must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can never act with the certainty that God is on our side; and yet at times we must act nonetheless, as if we are certain, protected from error only by providence.

Your faith in "what will be" will not only empower you to let go "what was", but it will also encourage you to accept "what is" existing now! Have faith in God; His plans are to prosper you, not to harm you!

Israelmore Ayivor

Believe in yourself, take a bet on yourself. If you don't, then who will?

Anuranjita Kumar

Feelings will get you out of control, but faith doesn't.

Auliq-Ice

Magic is a trick, and the trick is to believe it's real.

You’re lonely,” they say,but it doesn’t scare me anymorefor it teaches me,and maybe that’s the biggest win from these years:I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,like I always thought I would.I don’t break mirrors anymore,like I always thought I would. I can finally stand myself,and I never thought I would.

Charlotte Eriksson

It is only light that can extinguish darkness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.

Sadhguru

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.

HANNAH: You had a vision.PRIOR: A vision. Thank you, Maria Ouspenskaya. I'm not so far gone I can be assuaged by pity and lies.HANNAH: I don't have pity. It's just not something I have.(Little pause)One hundred and seventy years ago, which is recent, an angel of God appeared to Joseph Smith in upstateNew York, not far from here. People have visions.PRIOR: But that's preposterous, that's...HANNAH: It's not polite to call other people's beliefs preposterous.He had great need of understanding. Our Prophet. His desire made prayer. His prayer made an angel. The angel was real. I believe that.PRIOR: I don't. And I'm sorry but it's repellent to me. So much of what you believe.HANNAH: What do I believe?PRIOR: I'm a homosexual. With AIDS. I can just imagine what you ...HANNAH: No you can't. Imagine. The things in my head.You don't make assumptions about me, mister; I won't make them about you.

Just 'cause something isn't true is no reason to not believe in it...

Hub Mcann

Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken.

If in doubt,trust your instincts because either you are right or lack the bite to fix it right.

I am graciously and joyfully living through each day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Drought-struck farmers pray for rain, in the express hope that the universe or owner thereof will hear the words and suspense the laws of meteorology for their benefit. Some, of course, actually believe just that, and for all anyone can prove they could be right.

Terry Pratchett

I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.

He didn't believe in magic and demons. He believed in day and night, endurance and fury, cold mud and loneliness and the speed with which blood leaves the body

Even in the broken state, my mind find waysto connect with you.

Anjum Choudhary

Athena always lived between two worlds: what she felt was true and what she as been taught by her faith.

You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission.

For any kind of problem, we must first undoubtedly believe that we can absolutely solve it! Then, the solution will come; it is our determination and our utter belief on this matter that shall bring the solution!

Mehmet Murat ildan

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

True belief is movement toward God even in the midst of confusion or frustration or fear.

Emily P. Freeman

I trust God to meet my every need.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

Stephen L. Carter

I feel so blessed to be alive and so blessed to have to have a father that loves me no matter how much wrong I do in this world.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

How gracious to forgive the people who hurt you

Lailah Gifty Akita

You are the light. Rise and shine.

Lailah Gifty Akita

O Lord, grant my dearest husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita, the spirit of prayer and the grace to read thy word.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May God grant you the anointing of the Holy Ghost.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God created all people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever your situation, there exist hope

Lailah Gifty Akita

Even if I say something, do not believe this nonsense, but do not disbelieve it either. Just see, "Someone is willing to sit in front of so many people and talk absolute nonsense, something that is totally absurd. Let me see what this is about." If you keep that much openness, the possibility is alive in your life. If you believe it, you will kill it. If you disbelieve it, you will kill it.

Sadhguru

Faith in God is confident hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Words are divine force.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love fuels the existence of a divine being

Lailah Gifty Akita

The creative force is God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.

Its a sign of weakness to lament about things which you entirely have no control over.

Auliq-Ice

I am a plain person. I have merely spoken out my mind. I do not say you should believe what I have said because it alone is certain. Accept such ideas as can be accepted, with the help of your reason, after a sound inquiry. Reject the rest.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

I will not subject you to a restraint, in the manner of scriptures and ancient works, by stating that you should trust what I say, that my words are apocalyptic; and that if you do not believe me, you will become atheists and go to hell. If what I say is not agreeable to your instinct, knowledge, experience and inquiry, reject it.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

Lord Almighty your grace is all I need.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs.

Success is living what you believe.

Amen” means ‘Yes’, it is done, glory to God!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Trust is a fragile thing. All it takes is a single moment in time, or a single word, to destroy what took a lifetime to build.

Auliq-Ice

We hope to receive what we long for.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Grace is the power of God!

Lailah Gifty Akita

We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.

We have nothing to lose in this life: We came naked into the world and we will exit naked.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Idealism easily becomes dangerous because it brings with it, almost inevitably, the belief that the ends justify the means. If you are fighting for good or for God, what matters is the outcome, not the path. People have little respect for rules; we respect the moral principles that underlie most rules. But when a moral mission and legal rules are incompatible, we usually care more about the mission.

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences.

Do you ever wonder about the fairy tales of life?

Lailah Gifty Akita

I live every day as if I can die any moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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