Quotes About Belief

THE STOICS COULD HAVE given us a philosophy of life without explaining why it is a good philosophy. They could, in other words, have left adoption of their philosophy of life as a leap of faith, the way Zen Buddhists do with theirs. But being philosophers, they felt the need to prove that theirs was the "correct" philosophy of life and that rival philosophies were somehow mistaken.

SENECA OFFERS lots of specific advice on how to prevent anger. We should, he says, fight our tendency to believe the worst about others and our tendency to jump to conclusions about their motivations. We need to keep in mind that just because things don't turn out the way we want them to, it doesn't follow that someone has done us an injustice.

If you know why you believe something, you will not be upset by having that belief challenged.

Psychologist Daniel M. Wegner has gone so far as to argue that conscious will is an illusion—that despite appearances, what causes my finger to rise is not my consciously willing that it rise but something else.

If you believe you cannot live without a certain person or that your entire existence depends on somebody else, you are setting yourself up to be hurt by that misbelief. If

In the book of Proverbs in the Bible, it reads, As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

The people who get the best out of others are those who insist on seeing them at their best.

Not even God can teach a man who comes to the Bible with his mind made up.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

Some questions simply have no answers. It was meant to be that way. If we could prove empirically that God exists - what would be the point? That wouldn't be faith. That would be science class. True religion requires an act of faith - that's what defines it.

What is now proved was once imagined.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone.

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

Man must & will have some religion; if he has not the religion of Jesus, he will have the religion of Satan & will erect the synagogue of Satan.

He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

I am sure this Jesus will not doEither for Englishman or Jew.

If the sun and moon should doubt, They'd immediately go out.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd.

Both read the Bible day and night,But thou read'st black where I read white.

He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.If the sun and moon should doubtThey'd immediately go out.

When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.