Quotes About Belief

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.

In your passion for the true, people may see nothing but faddism.

myths are not just stories: they are narrative hypotheses, personified theorems that address the very nature of the world... Myths are really about the nature of nature...

Be there, for once and all, Severed great minds from small, Announced to each his station in the Past! Was I, the world arraigned, Were they, my soul disdained, Right? Let age speak the truth and give us peace at last! Now, who shall arbitrate? Ten men love what I hate, Shun what I follow, slight what I receive; Ten, who in ears and eyes Match me: we all surmise, They this thing, I that: whom shall my soul believe?

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white -- we call it black.

You call for faith:I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say,If faith o'ercomes doubt.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

When I started to believe that maybe a Higher Power, a Universal Force, existed which was Truly All-Powerful and Unconditionally Loving then life started to become a lot easier and more enjoyable. Then I could start to see that the "accidents" and "coincidences" are really miracles. That the "mistakes" are really opportunities for growth.

A "state of Grace" is the condition of being Loved unconditionally by our Creatorwithout having to earn that Love. We are Loved unconditionally by the Great Spirit. What we need to do isto learn to accept that state of Grace.

We need to let go of the illusion that we can control this life business. We cannot. We never could! It was an illusion. And we need to let go of the false beliefs that tell us that we are bad and shameful. We cannot become whole as long as we believe that any part of us is bad or shameful.