Quotes About Belief

it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

Faith is not merely a way of knowing; it is also a way of participating.

I suspect that it's because their belief system has segmented their world into a moral in-group and out-group so decisively that they're unconflicted about what they're doing. To them, the people they're killing are scarcely human. I think you share my concern about bad ideas being the malware that can get even psychologically normal people, biologically normal people, to do the unthinkable. How do you view this, in the context of your research?

we must understand that suffering results from the stories we tell ourselves.

I can!" Marvin said. "And by the Christo malherido, I'm going to!

Somewhere Dostoevsky has written, "Without God, all things are possible." I can amend that. "To the invisible man, all things are possible—and uninteresting.

You see the difficulty of believing in a divine force that determines all events? Where is the element of choice that makes suffering meaningful? To force you into a sin, and then to require you to endure defeat as atonement, seems to me an empty exercise.

It was an irony that Rudiger, the anarchist, the man who believed in individualism and the abolition of all political institutions, should be so good at leading a team of fishermen. Rudiger didn't care for teamwork in the abstract.

Even when state money became paper, and therefore intrinsically worthless, it was thought desirable to maintain belief that government notes – promises to pay the bearer – were in fact debt certificates backed by gold. Until 1971, the value of the American dollar was widely believed to depend on its convertibility into gold, as though the value of gold guaranteed the value of paper dollars.

Money is just an idea.

Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.

Your mind is infinite, it's your doubts that are limiting.

Why in the world would someone say, 'I can't afford it' or 'I can't do it' to something they want? Why would someone deny themselves the things they want? It makes no logical sense.

It's not what we say out loud that determines our lives. It's what we whisper to ourselves that has the most power.

It's what is in your head that determines what is in your hands.

Whatever your reality is about money inside of you is the reality of money outside of you. You cannot change your outside reality until you first change your inside reality about money.

Believe in yourself, and start today!

El espíritu humano es muy, muy poderoso. Él sabe que puede lograr cualquier cosa.

Words form thoughts, thoughts form realities, and realities become life.

our culture has educated us into believing that the love of money is the root of all evil.

Luck is created. So go create yours.

Money is only an idea. If you want more money, simply change your thinking.

1.?Find a reason greater than reality: the power of spirit

I noticed that people really do shape their lives through their thoughts.