Quotes About Belief

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

When you don't give money, it shows that you have the devil's nature.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

I think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

Of all heroes , Spinoza was Einstein 's greatest. No one expressed more strongly then he a belief in the harmony , the beauty , and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.

Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you.

Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.