Quotes About Belief

Using yourself as a guide and not needing the approval of an outside force is the most religious experience you can have.

While I'm being introduced as a speaker about to take the microphone, I repeat this line from A Course in Miracles to myself: "If you knew who walked beside you at all times on this path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.

Trust your own essential nature.

An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires. In The Power of Awareness, Neville emphatically explains that "To be transformed, the whole basis of your thoughts must change. But your thoughts cannot change unless you have new ideas, for you think from your ideas.

Change the way you look at things and things you look at, will change.

Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind—that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true."1

I am all-knowing, I am all-powerful, I am unlimited. This helps you banish doubt and refer to this portion of yourself that lives in a spiritual world of no restrictions.

I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.

It's funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

Jesus' military career has never compelled my belief.

I do not believe in god, but I miss him.

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice for all right of private judgment is then denied.

It would be well if all who call themselves Christians, should learn that it is not their business to believe and teach what they may think true or right, but what God in his Holy Word has seen fit to reveal.

A philosophy which cannot be received until men cease to believe in their own existence, must be in extremis. [What is Darwinism (New York, 1874), p. 17.]

The Romanist then believes because the Church believes. This is the ultimate reason. The Church believes, not because she can historically prove that her doctrines have been received from the Apostles, but because she is supernaturally guided to know the truth. 'Common consent,' therefore, is practically abandoned, and tradition resolves itself into the present faith of the Church.

Faith in the widest sense of the word, is assent to the truth, or the persuasion of the mind that a thing is true.