Quotes About Belief

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.

The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.

it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.

Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.

psychopaths will lie even to people who already know the truth about what they are saying. Amazingly, more often than not, victims will eventually come to doubt their own knowledge of the truth and change their own views to believe what the psychopath tells them rather than what they know to be true.

If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either.

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence.

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ...

a man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.

Since Thami had the Arab's utter incomprehension of the meaning of pornography, he imagined that the police had placed the ban on obscene films because these infringed upon Christian doctrine at certain specific points, in which case any Christian might be expected to show interest, if only to disapprove.

he refused to consider the Moroccans' present culture, however decadent, an established fact, an existing thing. Instead, he seemed to believe that it was something accidentally left over from bygone centuries, now in a necessary state of transition, that the people needed temporary guidance in order to progress to some better condition.

Polly belonged wholly to her time. Alert to its defects and dangers, she nevertheless had reached what she herself called an adjustment, and she was very firm in her belief that without the attainment of a state of conscious harmony with the society in which he functioned, no individual could hope to accomplish much of anything

According to popular belief, the feebler the individual consciousness, the better equipped it is to serve as an instrument through which God can speak.

Godinama je njegovo praznovjerje da se stvarnost i istinske predodžbe mogu na?i u razgovoru s pripadnicima radni?ke klase. Iako je sada jasno vidio da su njihove formule razmišljanja i govora jednako krute i šablonske, pa stoga i jednako daleko od bilo kakvog izraza istinitosti kao i formule svake druge klase, ?esto bi i dalje znao uhvatiti sebe kako ?eka, iracionalno vjeruju?i da bi im iz usta mogli iza?i biseri mudrosti.

The British obviously overlooked the fact that an American only has to be sold on the idea that his cause is just and he is capable of anything.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

The ministry of John the Baptist where he passed-on all the sins of the people of this world onto Jesus was truly a righteous act. This is the gospel of the atonement for sins, the righteousness of God, and the way toward salvation John witnessed. In order for us to receive salvation, we must realize and believe in our hearts both Jesus' baptism and His shed blood, and His resurrection, which makes up the gospel of the atonement for sins.

We need to understand how the Apostle Peter believed and explained the baptism of Jesus? In 1 Peter 3:21 he said, "There is also an antitype which now saves us-baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ." The Apostle Peter is telling us the baptism Jesus received from John the Baptist is an antitype of the salvation of how He atoned for our sins.

Because of this, people have a vague belief that 'Jesus somehow has taken- on the sins of the world,' but this type of thinking stems from ignorance of the baptism of Jesus and its meaning. We

While the Bible declares that man is made in the image of God, anthropologists say that men make their gods after their own image: and the truth is that every God-conception is characteristic of the man who holds

Some say that the self endures after death, some say it perishes. Both are wrong and their error is most grievous.

it seems that he didn't want a world turned to mud. He believed in a soul.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.