Quotes About Belief

The vicious cycle starts: if you fail at something, you think it is your fault. Therefore you think you can't do that task. As a result, next time you have to do the task, you believe you can't, so you don't even try. The result is that you can't, just as you thought.

Is there a child in the world who does not believe in magic?

One-minute mindfulness will help you reconnect with those precious times when you believed anything was possible, when you lived in the present moment, fully and completely.

Parents seem to embrace, almost unquestioningly, this bizarre, superstitious belief in infant clairvoyance, as though their "innocent" offspring have access to deep truths lost to them, to the parents—lost to maturity, cynicism, compromise. It's one of our most esteemed cultural archetypes: the Prescient Child.

No man's plenum ... is impervious to the awl of God's will.

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

What we call 'reality,' consists of an elaborate papier-mâché construction of imagination and theory filled in between a few iron posts of observation."22 We

Arthur Schopenhauer once said, "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident.

It's only the fool who, because he's fallen once from grace, believes he should never have tried to be in the state of grace to begin with.

True spirituality is not trying to make ourselves spiritual through faith, but it is living out our faith in service to God and neighbor.

Spirituality is inseparable from theology. Indeed, it could be defined as the living out of theology.

The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.

Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I want to pat this person on the shoulder and mutter comforting words: "Things will get better! You won't always feel so depressed! Cheer up!

It is best to believe the praiser and dismiss the praise.

Certainly, if the world ever is saved, it'll be by somebody young enough not to know that it can't be done.

The Golden Age of Stay More would remain only the subject of endless legends and embellished conjectures among the tale-telling roosterroaches until after The Bomb, when according to Crustian belief, Joshua Crust Himself would be resurrected from the west and take everyone in a Rapture to live on the right hand of Man in the perfect Ozark Golden Age of yore.

I believe in doubt. I believe in keeping clear of believers.

You'll fly like a stone kite," said Encyclopedia. "Nope, it's going to work," said Casper. "Buck Barkdull has flown—" "Nobody can fly!" screamed Encyclopedia. "Jump off the roof and you'll find out what an anchor does.

If you don't believe others can end your suffering, why believe they can end your happiness?

To follow God, one must be a little "out of their mind" (and "into their Spirit").