Quotes About Belief

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

When the human being says: 'It is not true...' He may mean: 'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.' Or: 'I don't like it.

There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.

People generally deal with situations by means of assumptions.

when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief.

People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.

Principles and inelastic rules are the last bastion of the primitive. Principles are guides which substitute for knowledge; rules are drawn up to guide those who do not know. Primitive man has stayed with us for aeons, sustained by the pessimistic belief that, since knowledge is impossible, substitutes must always be employed instead.

Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.

Una barba mejor que la tuya. "Todos los verdaderos devotos llevan barba," dijo el Imán a su audiencia. "Muéstrenme una barba espesa y brillante, y yo les mostraré a un verdadero creyente!" "Mi cabra tiene una barba mucho más tupida y larga que la tuya," contestó Nasrudín. "¿Eso significa que es mejor musulmán que tú?".

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Community: Irrationals unified by hope of the impossible.

Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.

Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental.

Las personas de este mundo tienen un destino fijado. Pero quien está desarrollado espiritualmente recibe lo que 'no' está en su destino.

Conviction, far from being based upon reason, is the enemy of reason; because rationality does not change, while convictions do, all the time.

Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots.

The person who has not seen the face of trust - has seen nothing. The person who has not found contentment - has found nothing.

Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to.

None should say: 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Adherent: Someone who will believe anything except what he should.