Belief Quotes
Mitch Albom
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
3068 Lailah Gifty Akita
We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.
3086 Bill Hicks
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
1389 George Carlin
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
3535 Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
1814 C. JoyBell C.
Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.
2207 Stanley Victor Paskavich
Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.
3091 Oscar Wilde
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
2552 C.S. Lewis
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
4085 Veronica Roth
You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
1548 Sigmund Freud
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
2490 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Follow the path that leads to understanding. Only then, will you illuminate the way for others. Once you open your mind and gain knowledge, truth, you'll leave the darkness and enter into the light of wisdom.
2635 Aaron B. Powell
The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell.
1894 Charlotte Eriksson
This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?
3802 Mark Vonnegut
Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.
1305 Annie Dillard
Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
4223 Jennifer Elisabeth
For most of us free-thinking, wild hearts, our relationship with God or the Universe will go through peaks and valleys – transforming into new concepts and beliefs, completely disappearing, at times, only then to instantly explode back into existence by something even as small as a sunset!
2367 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Many things are spoken out loud, but be careful of those words that you whisper to yourself. You have the ability to uplift yourself or condemn yourself. If your thoughts are depressingly running across your mind. You need to make adjustments and change your way of thinking.
1987 Agnostic Zetetic
Even with the very best of intentions, even with the ambition of making the world a better place, when we cast judgment upon people whose lifestyles, beliefs, or predilections we dislike, we add to the emotional filth of hostility and make the world feel a little less safe for the folks we’re genuinely trying to help.
4449 Maxwell Maltz
A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
1137 Jefferson Smith
You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.
4495 A.J. Darkholme
No matter what, don't live a life where you're too scared to die for what you believe in. Always go at it with everything you've got, even if it doesn't seem to be enough.
4518 Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't be decieved by your mortality, you're just a piece of debris, and the sophisticated one lies inside us which was either created or would be destroyed.
1539 Alan Sheinwald
Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped
3508 Michael Bassey Johnson
God used the element of faith to construct the earth and its inhabitants. Whatever he said, it came to pass, then dropped these elements in us to say whatever we want to also come to pass, but sin and disbelieve has murdered the faith in us and need to be ressurected by purity and strong will power.
2550 Alan Sheinwald
The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.
1668 Charlotte Eriksson
An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.
1344 Mohammed Ali Bapir
Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion.
3688 Amit Kalantri
In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.
4346 Christopher Kelly
...history should continually seek to challenge our assumptions. It should prompt us to look differently at the world and make us less self-assured about our own ideals and beliefs.
2506 Anthony Liccione
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
4050 M.K. Clinton
If believing were simple, then this world wouldn’t be in the mess that it is today.
1317 Lailah Gifty Akita
What defines our world; believes, thoughts, dreams, decisions, choices and actions.
4790 A.J. Darkholme
We are united by something greater and more valuable than our beliefs alone: the freedom to have those beliefs, and believe what we want without persecution - we must protect that at all costs.
2205 Tom Giaquinto
Making this a better world happens one person at a time. You cannot force your beliefs on anyone. Rather, be the example that others can emulate. Live your life so that others may be inspired by your words and deeds. That's how change happens.
4901 Daniel Willey
There are billions of people in this world that don’t believe or act exactly as we do. It is not our place to reject them, only accept them. Again, we don’t have to agree with everything they believe or do, but we do need to love and accept who they are.
4458 Neil Strauss
True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.
4034 Michael Bassey Johnson
Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.
2724 Charles Fort
People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.
3001 Kamil Ali
MIND & GRIND
Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers
3260 Vera Nazarian
A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.
3961 Dara Reidyr
Doubt everything except your conscience, even then test the waters, for much brainwashing has gone out into the world
2998 Mustafa SULTAN
It's awkward how some people refuse to be humans regarding their behaviours! Isn't that against God's will for he created them as humans? And yet, they at night hold hands up and ask God for forgiveness and to grant them their wishes; when he created animals sinless.
1842 Mary Baker Eddy
Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.
1473 W.C. Fields
Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.
4012 Ambrose Bierce
Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
2246 George Carlin
I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.
3427 H.L. Mencken
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
2505 C. JoyBell C.
In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it!
1908 Charles Bukowski
I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.
3556 Stuart Chase
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
2077 Thomas Aquinas
The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.
1691 Jodi Picoult
There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.
3156 C. JoyBell C.
Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.
3366 Norman Vincent Peale
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
1901 Frank Herbert
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
2701 Jeffery Deaver
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.
3699 Robert Fanney
Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.
1595 Tom Robbins
Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.
1440 Rupertus Meldenius
In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
2215 Peter Kreeft
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
4227 Toba Beta
Not all can believe anything they want to,
because not all have the ability to believe.
1060 Marie Sexton
The number of people who believe a thing has no bearing upon its truth.
4580 Orson Scott Card
When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.
1669 Jeanne DuPrau
Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. -People of Sparks-
3219 Sheri S. Tepper
I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.
1954 Augusto Roa Bastos
It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.
4107 Michael Bassey Johnson
You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.
2585 Michael J. Fox
Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', "I CAN handle the truth.
3208 Toba Beta
I don't believe that aliens exist,
but I do believe that any new facts
can strengthen foundation of my belief.
2482 P.C. Hodgell
That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.
4535 Sara Gruen
Sometimes when you get older - and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently - things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they're a part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they're not true - why, then you get offended.
1849 Paulo Coelho
We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.
2628 Ashly Lorenzana
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.
4949 Toba Beta
Belief has nothing to do with facts,
especially for the unbelievable facts.
2884 Eugene T. Gendlin
What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.
4200 Megan Chance
The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.
2497 Toba Beta
Whatsoever thing you believe strongly,
it will be turned into truth within your mind.
1269 Jean Hatzfeld
The truth is not believable to someone who has not lived it in his muscles.
3363 Toba Beta
If you believe in something because of miracles,
then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.
4241 Megan Chance
Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.
1248 Stephen King
Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.
3723 R. N. Prasher
When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.
2770 Idries Shah
You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.
4762 Abhishek Shukla
To be successful in life , Plan, Implement, Revise, Update, and Build on Change.
2154 Abhishek Shukla
Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.
1578 Bertrand Russell
My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
1607 Alfred Bester
Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.
1539 Eric Hoffer
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
3311 Carl Sagan
If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
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