Quotes About Belief

If I got down on my knees I thought, "Do I really believe? Whom am I praying to?" A terrible doubt came over me, and a sense of shame, and I wondered if I was praying because I was lonely, because I was unhappy.

I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.

É o que faz a mente humana, descobre provas para apoiar aquilo em que acreditamos.

That's what came from having romance in your soul, I suppose. You believed in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.

believe it. Sidney wouldn't hurt anyone.

That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.

My belief in God is personal, I do not need to browbeat anyone into agreeing with me, because I believe what I believe and I try to live by it. My belief in God is about trying to be the best person I can be in this life ...

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

Children make parents as wretched as parents make children; but children do not really believe that. They can't understand how it is that those whom they take for tyrants can be hurt by the victims of the tyranny.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

A subset of this myth is the belief that if you're really in love, you will automatically lose all interest in others; thus, if you're having sexual or romantic feelings toward anyone but your primary partner, you're not really in love. This belief has cost many people a great deal of happiness through the centuries, yet is untrue to the point of absurdity: a ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals.

Some people base their sense of ethics on what they've been told that God, or their church, or their parents, or their culture, believes to be okay or not okay. They believe that being good consists of obedience to laws set down by a power greater than themselves.

But believing that God doesn't like sex is like believing that God doesn't like you. Because of this belief, a tremendous number of people carry great shame for their own perfectly natural sexual desires and activities.

We urge you to regard with great skepticism any sentence that begins 'Everybody knows...' or 'Common sense tells us...' Often, these phrases are signposts for cultural belief systems that may be antisexual, monogamy-centrist, and/or codependent.

If I truly believe in some other people's inferiority, is it okay for me to play this out in scene? We hope not. Ideally, the top is pretending to be an oppressor that she doesn't identify with.

The cultural ban on having sex with your friends is an inevitable offshoot of a societal belief that the only acceptable reason to have sex is to lead to a monogamous marriagelike relationship.

Victory always starts in the head... It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmation that destiny can do nothing but obey.

Faith is required to get a vision for things that we don't see yet in our life.

Fear is one of the biggest things that will stop you from moving forward and doing the things that will get you to your destiny.

Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.

The good news is God isn't waiting for your perfect youth talk to do a mighty work through you.