Quotes About Belief

LIVING FROM THE ANSWER

If all of the dos and don'ts of quantum possibilities are true and emotion is the key to choosing reality, then the question is: "How do we feel as if something has happened when the person next to us stares us squarely in the face and says that it hasn't?

Unlike the traditional prayers that we may have used in the past, however, this technique of prayer has no words. It is based in the silent language of human emotion. It invites us to feel gratitude and appreciation, as if our prayers have already been answered. Through this quality of feeling, the ancients believed that we're given direct access to the power of creation: the Spirit of God.

Thus, it doesn't take many people to anchor a new way of thinking or believing

Key 6: We have all the power we need to create all the changes we choose!

Key 8: To simply say that we choose a new reality is not enough!

we believe in our hearts and minds?

To create reality, focus beyond the outcome, as if it has already happened.

In the teachings of Mahayana Buddhism, it's believed that reality can exist only where our mind creates a focus.

the object of our attention becomes the reality of our world.

different intentions produced different effects

I've written this book for one reason: to offer a sense of hope, possibility, and empowerment in a world that often makes us feel small, ineffective, and helpless.

In a participatory universe of our making, why should we expect it to be difficult to have the power to create?

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained … all existing things are … imaginary.

Patience means awaiting God's time, without doubting God's love.

When the New Testament tells us that this or that "household" (as many English translations put it) was baptized in connection with Christian faith, what would the first hearers have thought?

Baptism did replace circumcision as a Gentile sign of entrance into the Church, as a matter of fact. Moreover, it is a necessary act for believing Jews in addition to circumcision (Acts 21:21, 1 Cor. 7:18). But, it doesn't exactly replace circumcision for Jews, especially in that transitional era.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do something tangible about it. You can read books, take a class, or talk to someone about it. But what can you do when you're already convinced it's true but don't experience it as real?

I believe a significant segment of American evangelicalism is guilty of nationalistic and political idolatry.

if a man were an avowed communist, would our position be to excommunicate him or disqualify him for any position in the Church,

But the myth of power is, of course, a very powerful myth, and probably most people in this world more or less believe in it. It is a myth, which, if everybody believes in it, becomes to that extent self-validating. But it is still epistemological lunacy and leads inevitably to various sorts of disaster.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Religions do not teach doubt.