Quotes About Belief

He was the first who dared to say, "Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, because you have been made to believe it from your childhood; but reason it all out, and after you have analysed it, then, if you find that it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it, and help others to live up to it.

I remember, as a boy, hearing a Christian missionary preach to crowd in India. Among other sweet things he was telling them was, that if he gave a blow to their idol with his stick. what could it do? One of his hearers sharply answered, "If I abuse your God, what can He do?" "You would be punished," said the preacher, "when you die." "So my idol will punish you when you die," retorted the Hindu.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

Thus will we come to the basis of belief, the real genuine religion. We will perceive for ourselves whether we have souls, whether life is of five minutes or of eternity, whether there is a God in the universe or none. It will all be revealed to us. This is what Raja-Yoga proposes to teach.

Everything is achievable; never stop yourself,from following on your dream.

We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.

if you believe, instead, that the passing years are a celebration of life, who knows what they'll bring?

I don't believe in God. Not with my mind. Not with my sense. I believe in what you can see and feel and hear and know. But sometimes a mood comes over me when all of life seems mysterious. The seasons. Things that grow. The different ways to be a person. My dreams.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Ninety percent of what we believe has nothing to do with the process of thought, but comes instead from the four sources of family inheritance, individual temperament, national culture, and economic self-interest; and while we cannot wholly cast off these shackles, we should at least recognize their cramping and distorting influence upon the free process of thought.

Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

The sullen workman who is afraid of being imposed upon is secretly convinced of his own inferiority--when he has to say, or think, "I'm as good as any man," he doesn't quite believe it himself.

When a man's position in life depends upon his having a certain opinion, that's the opinion he will have.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Take short views, Hope for the best, and Trust in God.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

Often, it is the thought that pain will never end that makes it seem unbearable.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it.

If nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be.