Quotes About Belief

We must distinguish the act of faith from the object of faith, believing from what is believed.

Aristotle also believed that a vacuum was impossible.

Our faith here can only be in God, not in our faith (that's presumption). He will never abandon us, but we can abandon Him. That's why we must be vigilant.

our ego is not God. In fact, it is often wrong, because it is fallen, foolish, and faithless.

you have nothing worth dying for, you will die. If you have nothing worth living for except mere living, you will not live.

In the first sense, probability means the degree of belief or approvability of an opinion—the gut view of probability. Scholars use the term "epistemological" to convey this meaning; epistemological refers to the limits of human knowledge not fully analyzable.

We could turn this assertion around and state that a decision should involve the strength of our desire for a particular outcome as well as the degree of our belief about the probability of that outcome.

God is a God who speaks!

If we're going to die either way, there's no difference. At some point you have to trust somebody.

the stock market demands conviction as surely as it victimizes the unconvinced.

In dieting and in stocks, it is the gut and not the head that determines the results.

A shared vision is not an idea. It is not even an important idea such as freedom. It is, rather, a force in people's hearts, a force of impressive power. It may be inspired by an idea, but once it goes further—if it is compelling enough to acquire the support of more than one person—then it is no longer an abstraction. It is palpable. People begin to see it as if it exists. Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

The fanatic is certain that he is right.

we dubbed this host of problems the "true believers syndrome" and realized it is a primary reason that promising innovations often fail to spread. The

Course truth don't count for much after all these years cause folks hangs on to what it suits 'em to believe and won't let go of it.

Man wants the truth about Ed Watson," Daniels jeered. "Where you aim to find it? Smallwoods'll tell you their truth, Hardens'll tell you theirs. Fat-ass guard out there, he'll tell you his and I'll give you another. Which one you aim to settle for and make your peace with?

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

Some of what we learned early on turned out to be true (the earth is round; if you want a friend be a friend; cleanliness is next to impossible) and some of it turned out to be false (Santa Claus; the Tooth Fairy; Kansas is more fun than Oz).

Like many things he had believed, it had all been an illusion, only true because he had been gullible enough to believe in it. In reality, it had all been as flimsy and fleeting as an optical illusion; it depended entirely on your point of view. In calendar time, perhaps, those days weren't so long ago, but in his memory they sometimes seemed as if they had been dreamed by another person in another century.

but the easiest way isn't necessarily the true one.

Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt.

Religious people are often the most violent.

The truth is rarely as liberating as people would have us believe; it often binds more than it frees.

Christianity was useless if it forgot people and the here and now. Faith and belief, she felt, were no use without charity, love and compassion; religion was nothing if it focused entirely on the afterlife.