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Quotes About Belief

Life will magnify what you choose to believe.
~ Dodinsky
If you want to make a man hate you fiercely and forever, prove to him something he does not wish to believe.
~ Olin Miller (1893–1981)
Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn't believe it. Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they're true or not.
~ Jeb Dickerson, @JebDickerson
But probably 2,000 years hence many beliefs of the wise of our day will have come to seem equally foolish. Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
~ Bertrand Russell, c.1943
I mean, if we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
~ Noam Chomsky, 1992
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
~ William Morris, lecture, 1880
Everybody should believe in something. I believe I'll have another coffee.
~ Author Unknown
Crossing over the boundaries we've been taught to live within is a tough business. But I'm getting the idea they're not so formidable.
~ Jeb Dickerson, @JebDickerson
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will.
~ Mark Twain, "Consistency"
We spend all our lives building wings of faith so that we can fearlessly fly off into another world.
~ Terri Guillemets
Hope follows death. It has to, or death serves no purpose.
~ Terri Guillemets
In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
~ American Saying
Nobody is too old for fairy tales.
~ Author Unknown
Don't ask questions of fairy tales.
~ Jewish Folk Saying
Faith is not without worry or care, But Faith is Fear that has said a prayer.
~ Thelma Ireland, "Faith," 1943
Fear knocked at the door, faith opened it and lo, there was no one there.
~ Author unknown, c.1930s
If it want for faith, thare would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with enny safety, if it want for faith.
~ Josh Billings, "Faith"
Faith is nothing but spiritualized imagination.
~ Henry Ward Beecher, 1871
...[F]aith... A passionate intuition...
~ William Wordsworth, 1814
Faith makes things possible, not easy.
~ Author Unknown
Sunbeams shine through the clouds, Faith shines through all my doubt.
~ Terri Guillemets
The best faith is not the stagnant, same-every-day, sit-still faith but the faith that dances and sways with life.
~ Terri Guillemets
Patience pilots faith.
~ Terri Guillemets
Faith is not about everything turning out okay; faith is about being okay no matter how things turn out.
~ Author Unknown