Belief Quotes

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing...

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the road may be ...

A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It ...

Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to b...

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? Don't you...

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover....

Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to bel...

Because you cannot see him God is everywhere.

All tastes are expressions of belief.

But his doubts were again coming back to him; when you needed a miracle to gain belief, it means tha...

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is...

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holid...

All money is a matter of belief.

All Egypt is obsessed with death! And do you know why, Renisenb? Because we have eyes in our bodies,...

After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.

As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowle...

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have alt...

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason c...

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own ...

The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction...

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a...

The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which ...

Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, o...

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's...

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, f...

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

Belief is the enemy of knowledge.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, th...

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only ...

What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear....

And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed ...

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - t...

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- ...

Spirituality is not adopting more beliefs and assumptions but uncovering the best in you.

Micro meditations should be performed with very little activity. These practices should not be assoc...

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.(Fr...

The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancien...

They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a...

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who ...

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that y...

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you wil...

Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requ...

I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find...

It could be that God has absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have ...

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in t...

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot ...

The Master made it his task to destroy systematically everydoctrine, every belief, every concept of ...

Man is what he believes.

You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most...

He who does not know how to believe, should not know.

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

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people be...

I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.

In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed ...

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

We must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can ...

Perform without fail what you resolve.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence...

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly im...

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at ...

Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with hi...

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. H...

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...

William James used to preach the 'will to believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will t...

I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wil...

My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ...

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fi...

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happe...

The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's th...

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't b...

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

Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gambl...

He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the ...