Quotes About Belief

The militant atheism proselytized by authors such as Richard Dawkins, has, in spite of the success of their books, caused hardly a dent in the armor of even the most open-minded believers, who cannot help being shocked by the virulence with which their most sacred beliefs are attacked.

Here is where Darwin's ideas encountered the strongest resistance, lasting up to the present day; they implied a lack of purpose in nature.

ecumenism, universal brotherhood, and the like. But the very fact of believing implies rejection of different beliefs.

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

Example has more followers than reason.

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.

Christian Wolmar

Christian Wolmar

thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief.

Choose to trust God and to be at peace. Replace panic with praise and worry with worship.

just because something had never been done before did not mean it could not be done.

It is arrogance to believe you can know all things. Perhaps you are right. But perhaps you are not.

You can only act on what you do know. What your heart and your head and your gut tell you is right.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

It takes courage to create your own identity, to stop believing old stories about who you are or that limit who you can be.

If I say "yes" won't this change the order of the world?

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason — to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?" Molly asks when Vivian reads some of these stories aloud. "It certainly helps," Vivian says.

He reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith." "Faith in what?" "God, I suppose. No, I don't know. Survival.

easier to assume that people have it out for you than to be disappointed when they don't come through.