Quotes About Belief

Thoughts have no power except the power we give them.

Thoughts have no solidity, but merely the appearance of solidity because of the power we give them.

The more often we repeat a mental pattern, the more likely it becomes in the future;

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved

Just because it's in a book doesn't mean it isn't real.' - Great Aunt Celia

Just because it's in a book doesn't mean it isn't real.' Great Aunt Celia, The Spider Goddess.

Faith and trust come from an inner ability to believe in something unseen, to expect it to be there without ever having proof that it is.

sometimes few thoughts gives pain but that doesnt mean it is a curse

Belief! That was always a big problem. Marxism as a surrogate religion with its prophets and popes. Look where it has got us. You believe? You have no right to believe. You must not believe…

Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan were self-proclaimed atheists.

Galileo held the truths he had discovered to be of very great significance, but as soon as they endangered his life he recanted with the greatest of ease. He felt that whether the earth or the sun revolved around each other was not worth his life. He may also have felt that it was more important for him to live and work so that his students could spread the truth.

Human] wisdom is the believer's lost belonging; he is the most worthy of it wherever he finds it.

The 13th century author and scholar, Imam An-Nawawi (1233–1277) asserts that there are two stages to faith: "the faith of the trader" who gives himself to God in exchange for Paradise and, beyond this, "the faith of the one who draws close" – who dedicates himself to God in an act of pure love. The notion of exchange disappears to make room for total, complete and free love.

I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

Contrary to what most people say and believe, the simplicity is a great thing, i actually believe in - complexity is a fantastic thing and complex things should be approached in a complex way.

My hope does not wish for even one man more. Victory is not seen to be given on the basis of numbers. God is all-powerful. My cause is put into His hands. Here he pressed us down with disease. Being merciful, He will not let us be killed by these enemies. Let pious prayers be offered to Him.

knew without question what I had seen. Adelaide and Penelope's mother could now, at last, rest in peace. I also knew without question that this information would be best kept from my husband. There is no point in trying to convert those who don't believe.

Lady Emily, and then consider your connection with the Women's Liberal Federation. It's very off-putting," she said. "People are beginning to talk." "Let them," I said. "I believe in what I'm doing." "You're just trying to get attention. No thinking person can believe women

He no longer believed in ideals and stuff. He wished that he could kick out the beliefs he had held so dear all his life. Why should he bear the burden of these principles when all most people do is only touch their lips to the cup of wisdom but not take it into their hearts and minds? Why should he bother with being the only believer?

Which is better, that it should be said to the paralytic, Your sins are forgiven you, or that it should be said 20 to him, Arise, and take your bed, and walk?

You have to believe you deserve what you want, that it's yours. That's the most important part of it all. If you don't believe you deserve it, if you wait for someone to hand what you want to you, then you'll be waiting your whole life for things to happen, and they won't.

I know you're innocent, there is not one doubt in my mind, but I also know that you're not here.

Did I imagine that this was our pattern for all time? That we could grow old together, accusing and forgiving? Back then, I dind't know what forever looked like. Maybe I don't even know now. But that night in Piney Woods, I believed that our marriage was a fine-spun tapestry, fragile but fixable. We tore it often and mended it, always with a silken thread, lovely but sure to give way.