Quotes About Belief

One of the most pernicious of folk-sayings is, 'I cannot believe my eyes!' Why particularly should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Believe your mind, your intuition, your reason, your emotion if you like - but not your eyes unaided by any of these interpreters. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination, as easily as the actual scenery.

I Believe in Miracles and the Power of the Individual to make a positive difference in the world.

In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

I've never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don't have and don't need.

Our goal will be to acquire either part or all of businesses that we believe we understand, that have good, sustainable underlying economics, and that are run by managers whom we like, admire and trust.

Yeah, trust the fuckhead.

Mister Sun wondered if he really believed it was true that the heart is just a pump.

I have met people who insist that humans taste like veal. And one woman from Canada who will swear up and down that people, like most other things, taste a bit like chicken. But she was crazy. And also Canadian.

Are you Satan? Satan was just a story. I am Karnak.

Create your Gods and they will watch over you!

Bible-reading and prayer are not wrong, and God forbid that we should suggest that they are. But it is wrong to trust even in them for victory. Our help is in Him who is the object of that reading and prayer. Our trust must be in Christ alone.

Neither our psychology nor that of the unbelievers can impart life to them. Unless the Holy Spirit Himself performs the work, all is vain.

The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind.

For Christianity begins not with a big do, but with a big done.

The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind. Though the Christian may not feel like obeying God

We may exhort ourselves to read tolerantly, we may quote Coleridge on the willing suspension of disbelief until we think ourselves totally suspended in a relativistic universe, and still we will find many books which postulate readers we refuse to become, books that depend on 'beliefs' or 'attitudes'...which we cannot adopt even hypothetically as our own.

That sense of contributing to a community is never more rewarding than when you discover something that you believe can improve your readers' lives by changing what and how they think.

No one knows enough to be a pessimist

Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you'll automatically be converted to a being who can create miracles.

As You Think, So Shall You Be.

Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.