Quotes About Belief

T OO MANY people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.

Whether you think you can or can't, you're right.

I don't believe in no-win situations

People want to follow someone with convictions, not questions. Smooth eloquence can never take the place of unwavering belief.

It took guts to ignore public opinion and so what you thought was right.

They don't need the facts because they already know the truth—their common sense has spared them the effort of investigation or thought.

do not believe in large-scale conspiracies. If I ever meet more than three or four people who can actually keep a secret, then maybe I'll reconsider.

Studies have been done on people who believe in conspiracies. Clinical paranoia, plus nonspecific rage, are two common components. Crazy and angry: a dangerous combination.

I have no choice but to believe in free will" Tomlinson

When you have wholeheartedly accepted one vision of reality, it is very difficult to have that reality challenged, then replaced by another.

have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a religion.   —GEORGE ORWELL, 1938

We will discover, to our surprise, that we are all mentally ill. Our worst mental illness is not insanity. That is certainly a horrible sickness that we would wish on no one, but in comparison to other mental illnesses, it is at least "innocent". Our first mental illness is called unbelief. ... Unbelief is a kind of mental atrophy, an inability to see anything beyond and above our own minds.

Identification with an ethnic or national community, with a religion, ideology, or any abstraction is nothing but a blood-soaked delusion.

Religious beliefs concealed humans from themselves, a Bastille walling them up in a pyramidal world with God at the summit and the king just below. Alas,

Fearful people always find reasons to confirm their worst fears.

Contrary to common wisdom, dreamers can affect reality.

People tend to conceive things as true when they wish them to be true.

Judging from the frequent occurrence of these female figurines, not matched anywhere by images of male gods, the worship of the goddess must have been extremely popular in all segments of Hebrew society. One of the reasons for her popularity may have been the belief that she promoted fertility in women and facilitated childbirth.

For those trying to change god's creations I say this-there was no-big bang-atheistic revelation. Jah exists before time. Faith is belief confirmed by truth. Faith happens. Faith fears not. Faith empowers. God is faith. Seek faith! faith is-without which there is none. Wise up and seek truth on which faith lives.

Want to know something wonderful? Even when we at times are faithless Jesus remains faithful.

A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path. The attempt to convince someone of anything is a mark of insecurity. (173)

There is one God, and it is not my God but yours.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.