Quotes About Belief

I think we're all bad judges of what goes on in other people's minds about God, Mr. Smith. It's a bad thing to force a God on a man who doesn't want one. It's worse to stand in the way of a man who wants one badly.

most végre tanuld meg, hogy bárhol e világon számíthatsz kegyelemre.

But if our minds can make such Gods and if from the Gods we have made there flows such power, which is no more than a power resident within us, why cannot we employ that power directly?

The discrepancy between faith and the facts is greater than is generally assumed.

Some say that we shall never know and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer day, and some say, on the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

There's a lot of common sense in some superstitions, George.

where do we go for experience? How do we trust

That men aren't naturally good; but girls are.

its not too late never too late

Si estás poseído por el temor no pierdas el tiempo tratando de "matar" el temor; en cambio, cultiva el valor y el temor desaparecerá.

Human beings could apparently be turned into killers as effortlessly as turning a key. All one had to do was use a few buzzwords: God. Country, Religion. Honor.

We all begin with a story of ourselves that we believe to be true. But perhaps true personal change, even healing, can only happen when we change that narrative, when we begin to tell ourselves and others a different story. Surely

I'm not sure if I should pray to the Muslim God or the Hindu one. If Abdul were alive he would say there is only one God and I must pray to the God called Justice. But I am going to court because Abdul is dead.

Maybe when people die, they become a spec in the eye of God. Maybe it Abdul to who I must pray. Maybe he can do in death what he couldn't do in life. Save me from the devils I must face in court.

Ma used to say: When the God enter into your house, he not enter looking like the God. He enter looking like human being. God enter my life looking like Maggie.

Nuestros problemas no surgen porque los otros no sean lo que pensamos que eran, sino porque erróneamente pensamos que eran algo que no son.

Lord Buddha never put much emphasis on belief. Instead, he exhorted us to investigate and try to understand the reality of our own being. He never stressed that we had to know what he was, what a buddha is. All he wanted was for us to understand our own nature. Isn't that so simple? We don't have to believe in anything. Simply by making the right effort, we understand things through our own experience, and gradually develop all realizations.

We should never think that our mind has somehow become irreversibly contaminated. This is impossible.

Our problem is that inside us there's a mind going, "Impossible, impossible, impossible. I can't, I can't, I can't." We have to banish that mind from this solar system. Anything is possible; everything is possible. Sometimes you feel that your dreams are impossible, but they're not. Human beings have great potential; they can do anything. The power of the mind is incredible, limitless.

When you get down on your knees praying for help, God's gonna look at you and keep doing what He was doing

the practice of accepting all ill omens as charms."206

No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit.

The concept of 'father' just feels made up, like Santa or the Easter Bunny.

to live, no money. I don't know what, or when, or how. But I do know who. With the utmost certainty, I know who.