Quotes About Belief

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

Morality is the power of endurance in man; and a religion which teaches personal responsibility to God gives strength to morality. There is a powerful restraining influence in the belief that an all-seeing eye scrutinizes every thought and word and act of the individual.

And immortality! Who will estimate the peace which a belief in a future life has brought to the sorrowing hearts of the sons of men?

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.