Quotes About Belief

A man who once asserted "one drink never hurt nobody" was now wholeheartedly enlisted in the ranks of Prohibitionists who had been fighting for decades against "demon rum" and "John Barleycorn" in the belief that bad private behavior should be restrained by federal statute.

Jesus didn't come to make us Christian. Jesus came to make us fully human.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. —SAUL BELLOW

Man is better off without the confusion and fear of psychic experience and his progress will be faster.' If telepathy ever becomes a possibility he was not sure it would be a good thing, '...for it may put us back in contact with the spirits of the dead and progress does not lie in that direction.

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

As we believe, our life will be

Experience is the direct perception before belief, before thoughts

Negative thinking is praying for what we don't want

Negative thoughts are the manifestation of a belief system in which we believe we are separate from each other and from God

Not believing we have the power is not the same as not having the power

Only think, speak, and act on that which you want to be true

The power of creation. Not believing we have the power is not the same as not having the power. We are constantly creating. The question is what are we creating. The power is in understanding the power. When we are anxious, when we are depressed, when we focus on lack, we create more lack. If instead we show gratitude, if we are thankful for the blessings in life, if we focus our energy on abundance, then abundance is what we create.

The thoughts we think today create the life we live tomorrow

We can live in God or we can wait for God

What we think expands and becomes reality