Quotes About Belief

Using past performance to pick tomorrow's winning mutual funds is such a bad idea that the government requires a statement similar to this: Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. Believe it!

Love will find you when you least expect it.

You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.

But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

My message to you is this: Pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important; what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.

Low expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we aim high, we'll get better results.

Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.'

Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism.

People used to speculate about a thought that destroys the thinker, some unspeakable Lovecraftian horror, or a Gödel sentence that crashes the human logical system. It turns out that the disabling thought is one that we've all encountered: the idea that free will doesn't exist. It just wasn't harmful until you believed it.

Pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important; what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.

Of course, everyone knew that Heaven was incomparably superior, but to Neil it had always seemed too remote to consider, like wealth or fame or glamour. For people like him, Hell was where you went when you died, and he saw no point in restructuring his life in hopes of avoiding that.

What Gentzen had done was prove the obvious by assuming the doubtful.

Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.

And God sent him to Hell anyway.

Minha mensagem para vocês é: finjam que têm livre-arbítrio. É essencial para vocês se comportarem como se suas decisões tivessem importância, mesmo sabendo que não têm. A realidade não importa: o que importa é a sua crença, porque acreditar nessa mentira é a única maneira de evitar o coma lúcido. A civilização depende agora da autoilusão. Talvez sempre tenha dependido.

some of the core assumptions on which your self-image is built are actually lies.

This is the story of a man named Neil Fisk, and how he came to love God.

Dana nodded. "We like the idea that there's always someone responsible for any given event, because that helps us make sense of the world.

M]any people are so quick to classify events as miraculous that it devalues the word.

He became an adult who—like so many others—viewed God's actions in the abstract until they impinged upon his own life.

they simply trusted that God was, directly or indirectly, responsible for their good fortune. Their devotion had never been put to any serious test, and might not have withstood one; their love for God was based in their satisfaction with the status quo.

This search is my purpose; not because you chose it for me, Lord, but because I chose it for myself.