Belief Quotes - Page 21

Whatever you believe is true is true even if it is not true

Belief is not a luxury, it is a biological necessity of the mind.

I won’t tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else’s notions thrust upon you.

Christopher Paolini

The theologian is interested specifically in the modern novel because there he sees reflected the man of our time, the unbeliever, who is nevertheless grappling in a desperate and usually honest way with intense problems of the spirit.

Flannery O'Connor

Loving connections are intimately associated with belief. The more connected we are, the more we believe in each other.

R.A.Delmonico

Evolution of belief systems and issues of control? If something is worth believing in, it is timeless.

R.A.Delmonico

Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Are you willing to forgo your salvation for a cause which seems righteous?

Joan Ambu

What was the point of being holed up with someone who didn't believe in me when I had people out there who did?

Alexandra Bracken

People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.

Walter C. Lagner

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent?Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

J.Krishnamurti

Well, when you wonder something," said Eli, "doesn't that mean part of you wants to believe in it? I think we want to prove things, in life, more then we want to disprove them. We want to believe.

V.E. Schwab

Civilisations realise their moronic beliefs.But never condemn them.

Talees Rizvi

There is, however, a strong empirical reasonwhy we should cultivate thoughts that cannever be proved. It is that they are known tobe useful. Man positively needs general ideasand convictions that will give a meaning tohis life an d enable him to find a place forhimself in the universe. He can stand the mostincredible hardships when he is convinced thatthey make sense; he is crushed when, on topof all his misfortunes, he has to admit that heis taking part in a "tale told by an idiot.

C.G. Jung

What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I am not convinced of the argument, 'I want to believe; it is only those awful Christians I hate. They get in the way of my belief.' If you hate Christians more than you love Christ, you do not love Christ. It comes to mind the question, 'If you do not love your brother or sister whom you have seen, how can you love God whom you have not seen?

Criss Jami

When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

When all is said and done, how do we not know but that our own unreason may be better than another’s truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey. Come into the world again, wild bees, wild bees!

W.B. Yeats

These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive rebellion is. The slaughter after the Golden Calf was worshiped. The thousands who died. The firestorm that burned the outer rim of camp when the foreigners among us incited a riot. They take for granted the miraculous water that feeds this multitude. They have eaten the manna every day of their lives and do not see the utter strangeness of it. They have not felt the desperation of thirst or the hopelessness of hunger. All they do is complain,

Connilyn Cossette

Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And the beliefs of the fundamentalist Australopithecines are particularly harmful. These beliefs are what we call "delusions". Except unlike in a neuropsychological ailment, the delusion of the fundamentalists is not just harmful for the individuals suffering from it, but more importantly it is the greatest threat to peace, progress and wellbeing of the entire human species.

Abhijit Naskar

For those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. For those who refuse to believe, no proof is ever enough.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

thought for the day.. we are only as strong and safe as the elements we allow into our inner circle rather than the belief of isolation, as a solution, which is foolish...LT

levi paul taylor

It doesn’t matter whether you believe in ghosts. The ghosts believe in you.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

Herta Müller

Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.

Lynda Barry

She glanced at me brieflyI looked at her longingly,so she believed Finally relieved.

Sumrit Shahi

These mental and physical components of self belief are closely interlinked. They are used to slowly interweave the personal narratives that very effectively create a powerful sense of identity.

David Amerland

One comes back [reborn] as a son because of harmony with us [from the past life] and one comes back as a son also because of enmity [vengeance from the past life], [but] needlessly arises the illusion [wrong belief] that ‘they are mine...they are mine’.

Dada Bhagwan

The wiseman knows and questions but what the fool believes he sees.

Jason Versey

Your level of ignorance is based on what you believe you know and your ego.

Kemi Sogunle

Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective.

Fennel Hudson

I don't believe in love. I love.

Marty Rubin

Believing is for Santa Claus, right? It's for Tooth Fairies. It's for your boyfriend when he says he's never met anyone like you and wants to feel you up. That's believing. It's for little kids. Belief. You believe in God?

Paolo Bacigalupi

Blind belief is a comfort; it is the frame that puts the rest of the world into context. It allows us to block out the things that don’t make sense, that which frightens us. It narrows our vision so that the world does not feel so large. Would it comfort you to have the frame of superstition? To believe that if you say the right words and sacrifice the right things, then your world will stay exactly as it is? Or do you wish to choose what you believe, what you trust and understand?

Cora Carmack

We all have choices. What are you choosing to believe about yourself, and about your life Believing you don't have a choice is a choice.

Scott Stabile

Believing can mean something a good deal less than certainty. I believe the bus will come in five minutes, but I can’t be sure. Or sometimes it can mean the kind of knowledge which is acquired after scrupulous review of evidence to build up a cumulative case for some conviction. But believing [as Scripture presents it] is not half-certainty, nor the fruit of mental effort. It’s belief in the deep, strong sense of giving allegiance to something which overwhelms us. To believe in the Lord Jesus…is to do far more than simply give him a passing nod with the mind or even to honor him with our religious devotion. It’s the astonished business of being so overthrown by his reality, so mastered by his sheer presence, so judged by him, that we can do nothing other than acknowledge that he is supremely real, supremely true. To believe in him is to confess him—to affirm with mind and will and heart that he fills all things, that our only hope lies in his name. ¶ Belief in this sense concerns the entire shape of a personal life. It embraces the whole of us. It’s not one department of our life, something in which we engage alongside all the other things we do—working, loving, hoping, creating, worrying, and so on. Believing is about the way in which we dispose the world of our existence. We believe when we’re totally shaped by something outside of us, acknowledging that it has put a decisive stamp on all that we are and all that we do. This is why belief in this deep, strong sense defines us completely: We’re “believers,” doing all that we do out of the inescapable conviction that the Lord Jesus is the persistent factor in the whole of our life. Believing in him, confessing him, involves no less than everything.

John Webster

Our believing has no power of itself; we certainly aren’t saved by belief. We’re saved by the grace and goodness and majesty of him in whom we believe—by the one whom we confess as we believe. In a real sense, our belief is nothing in and of itself. It’s simply a looking to him, a listening to him, in which we are wholly absorbed by that which we see and hear.

John Webster

What the wise man knows he questions but what the fool believes he sees.

Jason Versey

Polly?' Said Wazzer. 'Yes?''You don't believe in The Duchess, do you? I mean the real Duchess, not your inn.'Polly looked into the small, pinched, intense face. 'Well I mean, they say she's dead, and I prayed to her when I was small, but since you asked I don't exactly, um, believe as-' She gabbled.'She is standing just behind you. Just behind your right shoulder.'In the silence of the wood, Polly turned. 'I can't see her,' she said.'I am happy for you,' said Wazzer, handing her the empty mug.'But I didn't see anything,' said Polly.'No,' said Wazzer. 'But you turned around.

Terry Pratchett

He who doesn’t believe that God can do everything believes in a god who can do something! He who knows that God is all does all things because of God, no matter what!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I don’t see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn’t be just as wrong as what they believed in the past.’‘Neither do I.’‘Then how can you believe anything at all?’‘I don’t know.

W Somerset Maugham

Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.

Charlie Jane Anders

Many of us are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical untruths. There are some opinions and some beliefs so incredibly moronic, you actually feel stupid for not believing them; and it's probably because in giving the benefit of the doubt you self-doubt, you convince yourself into lame passivity and blind acceptance, you tell yourself, 'Maybe I'm just missing something here.

Criss Jami

It's not the size of the girl in the fight that counts... it's the size of the fight in the girl! -MISS MARVEL

G. Willow Wilson

I did wonder if I'd have cause to rue my action. Now I believe it can safely be filed under Necessary Regrets.

Anthony Ryan

I've often had to stand on the firm ground of my convictions when others thought I ought to be doing differently.

Anne Mateer

Some of us manage to think bigger, brighter, deeper thoughts. Some of these thoughts already shape the kind of research we do. Some of them will prove to be right, and our understanding of our home will deepen. Our home, one day, will be less of a mystery to us.

Tarun Betala

When what you believe, intend, feel and act comes in alignment ‘Magic’ happens!

Harrish Sairaman

All belief is a form of voluntary madness.

Marty Rubin

When I pass-away (as each of us must) release a balloon into the sky with ashes attached, to celebrate my graduation... My graduation from this life to the next.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Giving Thanks unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have, no matter how little, into more than enough. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. Gratitude can change a modest meal into a feast, a humble house into a loving home, a stranger into a caring friend.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

The more intense the belief, the less likely that reason and evidence can dislodge it.

Linda Elder Richard Paul

When you smile and no one else is around, you definitely mean it.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Depression is the feeling that everythingis a waste of time.Joy is KNOWING that nothing in this Life is a waste.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

We can, each of us, be likened to houses made entirely of colorfully stained-glass. They sparkle and shine when the sun is on them, however when the darkness sets in, their greatest beauty is revealed only by a Light from within.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Thank You is a great thing to share... If a situation brings Gratitude to mind, then a heart felt Thank You is a great way to express it.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

I feel that 'Thank you' is about the best prayer that anyone could say. A sincere prayer of Thanks expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging that helpis a very important part of understanding...and is also the importance of saying... THANK YOU.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Know that EVERYTHING in Life has purpose. There are no accidents, no coincidences, EVERY moment is a blessing given for our Spiritual benefit and learning.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

The most difficult experience one might ever have, is to grieve the loss of a Loved-one who is still alive.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

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