Quotes About Belief

God, save me and I will serve You as long as I live!

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgement.

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

Facts and logical arguments no longer matter; people decide what to believe based on tribal alliances, on what they want to believe, or what they feel is true.

Although the truth exists objectively and independently of us, we can never be absolutely certain we grasp it.

In Battuta's obsession with sharia and the Muslim world and in his lack of interest in nearly everything outside it we clearly see the double-edged sword of Islam so visible in today's world: an ecumenical but self-satisfied faith capable of uniting far-flung peoples under one system of belief and one regime of law, but also severely limited in its capacity to examine and borrow from others.

The principles of Christianity, deeply engraved on the heart, would be infinitely more powerfulthan the false honor of the monarchies...

As a result of overly reactive posturing toward an unbelieving world we sometimes breed our own worst understandings of the Bible.

Simply put, war restores in man the belief that there are some things worth fighting and dying for; things like love, liberty, and faith.

Although there is a limit beyond which belief will not withstand disconfirmation, it is clear that the introduction of contrary evidence can serve to increase the conviction and enthusiasm of the believer.

Disconfirmation of deeply held beliefs causes severe psychic pain; what better way of alleviating it than in the company of newly won believers? As put by Festinger, "If more and more people can be persuaded that the system of belief is correct, then clearly it must, after all, be correct.

some have speculated that Moses was influenced by Atenism, or was perhaps even a believer. Thus, in the middle of the second millennium, the Egypt/Sinai area saw the advent of Western monotheism

all democratic societies based on the rule of law, on the Tinkerbell Principle: it functioned only so long as its participants believed in it.48

most paleographers now believe that the "idea of writing" must have spread along with commerce, most likely from Sumer to Egypt.33

Although the Romans knew Chinese silk, they knew not China. They believed that silk grew directly on the mulberry tree, not realizing that the leaves were merely the worm's home and its food.

It is only when we live in accordance with the rule of God that our life is set in order," he declared a decade later; "apart from this ordering, there is nothing in human life but confusion.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

Love is spiritual; it is something that will never be fully comprehendible through science or through written word, love at its core is an emotion. It is as intangible as faith, you must have it to understand it, or believe it exists to seek it.

People don't see the world as it is, rather we impose our beliefs on what we experience.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Religion… is a man's total reaction upon life.