Quotes About Belief

Money is worth what people feel it's worth. . . . Without millions of individual citizens believing in a currency, money is colored paper.

I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.

By most people the 'sense of reality' is understood to be the submission to events and indeed illusion is often salvation.

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truths from its errors.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Until that night Lucille had believed that people say things in anger that they do not really mean. By the time the fracas in her dining room had ended, however, she had come to believe that what people say in anger is what they really do mean, but usually have the self-control to keep to themselves.

You see, counselors, teachers, and various organizations may all agree with you that you are handicapped, but God never will. He loves giving you the opportunity to face what you fear, because when you face what you fear you become fearless.

A] person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if: (1) He or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself.

I've lost not only my vanity but my feeling of mind-body identity, so that I no longer believe, as you did about me, that elegance of form is elegance of being. I do my best to keep the numbers on the scale where I want them and my skin and hair well tended, but my body is now essentially the vehicle for carting around what I think of as my self. Not

For T.J., it's simply an article of faith that happiness will be the natural by-product of success.

We manifest what we believe, even if those beliefs trip us up and create roadblocks to personal growth. As the old adage by Henry Ford goes: Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. The goal is not to be "right" but to be whole and self-actualized.

following Christ wasn't about religion; it was an intimacy with his Creator that had him constantly hungering for more.

Sometimes it's hard not to question. We spend our lives taking down the bad guys, trying to bring order to a world where injustice wins out more often than not. But neither can we blame God for man's choices. That's what always seems to help me hold on to my faith. The reality of God is bigger than the failings of man." "It's

God can use bad events for His glory, but that doesn't mean He's behind them.

He] didn't view the less idyllic chapters of his life as the results of "mistakes." He didn't believe in mistakes. He believed in a preordained path, and so far every point on this path had felt right. Every bad relationship had felt right, every shitty job he'd done had felt right - because he'd chosen them.

Poppy's hands fall on to the book. 'Stories', she says, 'are the only thing in this world that are real. Everything else is just a dream.

But, what if it's not a mistake? What if it's true?" "Well then, my angel... you'll be a very rich woman indeed.

If, quite against all of Adele's naturally held beliefs, it turned out that there was an afterlife, she strongly suspected that in heaven it would always be a Friday night.

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She can see how this self-possessed child might appear to other children. But she doesn't believe that it's the way it must be; she doesn't believe that Poppy couldn't learn to enjoy time with her peers, to stop rolling her eyes at them and alienating them. She doesn't know, thinks Laurel, she doesn't know that this isn't how you grow up.

But I realised it wasn't a ghost, it was his SPIRIT and then I realised that a spirit is just another word for a memory, isn't it? The stronger the memory the stronger the spirit. Because as much as I'd love to believe that the spirit lives on as a thing separate to humanity, I know that's not true. It's in our minds, in our hearts, that a person's spirit lives on.

But, what if it's not a mistake? What if it's true? Well then, my angel... you'll be a very rich woman indeed.