Quotes About Belief

Optimism is a practiced choice.

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I now act affirmatively. I now accept creative recovery. I now allow myself to heal. I now accept God's help unfolding my life. I now believe God loves artists.

Let go and let God

It's my experience that we're much more afraid that there might be a God than we are that there might not be.

En esencia, nuestras múltiples creencias negativas revelan una creencia negativa central: a favor de otro, debemos abandonar un sueño bueno y deseado.

si ser artista te parece demasiado bueno para ser verdad, te inventarás un precio a pagar por ese sueño que te resultará inasequible.

creencia negativa central: a favor de otro, debemos abandonar un sueño bueno y deseado.

Tírate y aparecerá la red».

It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance.

I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight. AMOS FERGUSON

The truth is, we do know and we know that we know. Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is.

Cuidando de si próprio, você alimenta sua conexão interna com o Grande Criador. Graças a essa conexão, a nossa criatividade desabrochará. Caminhos irão se abrir. Precisamos acreditar no Grande Criador e agir com fé.

Remember the maxim "Leap, and the net will appear.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information with. With our own eyes we see, and with our skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

My God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him. —ERIC CLAPTON

myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. WILLIAM BLAKE

People seem to be awfully gullible. They'll believe anything. ~in The NPR Intreviews, 1996, edited by Robert Siegel

It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. He'd thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he'd always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him. His heart had been right. There was only one.

I don't believe in God, but I miss him.

We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient--- it's not useful--- to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it.

How easy it was to be a Communist when you weren't living under Communism!

Tertullian said of Christian belief that it was true because it was impossible. Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.

When we killed – or exiled – God, we also killed ourselves. Did we notice that sufficiently at the time? No God, no afterlife, no us. We were right to kill Him, of course, this long-standing imaginary friend of ours. And we weren't going to get an afterlife anyway. But we sawed off the branch we were sitting on. And the view from there, from that height – even if it was only the illusion of a view – wasn't so bad.