Quotes About Belief

I do not believe in organized religion, herbal remedies, yoga, Reiki, kabbalah, deep massage, slow food, or chicken soup for the soul. The nostrums of Deepak Chopra and Barbara De Angelis cannot rescue people like me. I believe in crazyass passion.

My last thought before falling asleep was that we are all a lot more capable of conquering obstacles and fears than we think.

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

In God we trust, everybody else brings data.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

It is not real," he whispered. "This place is only a thought that has grabbed hold of you. It cannot harm you. You are not of this place, and it has no power over you. You do not need it, nor do you owe it your allegiance." I nodded, listening only to his words and not to the rattling of the windows, which had begun as soon as we stepped inside.

If you pray why worry, and if you worry, why pray.

I)f you prayed for the miracle you'd sell your most treasured possession for, you don't care about anything else but waiting on that miracle.

An age of enlightenment is one in which people are free to think as their intellect guides them. No body, even the Church, can permanently restrict freedom of thought by prescribing what people must believe, now and for ever.

More than a popular belief, it was a delusion of the learned.

As late as 1711, Addison says cautiously: 'I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.

The Age of Faith: and by 'faith' understand the denial of all scientific reasoning.

Nobody likes being exploited, unless they're unaware of it, and many aren't aware of it because they believe that's how life is and you can't change it.

they created huge empires of faithful slaves "by the will of the supreme gods"…

Locke has the idea that men were free to think of god in their own way, not as any religion told them to…

Philosophy started as Criticism of religious beliefs. By seeking logical reasons for the things in nature, mankind created the Science of philosophy…*

Even religion had to invent some kind of science for itself (Theology = The philosophy of divinity) To justify its existence.

The first thing religion invented was a faith in the "Beyond", the After Life …

The Egyptian argument was quite simple: men were created by Osiris and must obey his will on this earth. They must put up with slavery in the hope that, if they behave well, a better after-life awaits them in the next world – no more slavery, only eternal bliss…

No one lives out the words they preach or the advice they offer. This does not mean they don't believe in the words they've written or spoken but instead are subject to life's necessary standard deviations.

She taught me that without trust, love could never exist.