Quotes About Belief

Plant your seed of trust. It will grow in its season.

Before his death the Buddha asked his disciples to follow the Dharma, not any teacher or tradition. He put no one over the community of monks and nuns. The Dharma was to guide them. So for us, there is no blind belief or blind faith in Buddhism. We simply believe enough in the possibility of liberation and we are wise enough to see the suffering in our existence to have the faith to begin practice.

The only thing that makes something impossible is ignorance.

Nothing has taken more money or killed more people in the history of your race than religion,

All technology, for example, is magic to a primitive.

there was supposed to be this man who was Jewish and claimed to be God's son. For this the powers-that-be killed him, because they were scared he might lead a revolution or something. Supposedly he was to come back from the dead. One Jew was supposed to have cursed him at his execution and been told that he would stay until this god-man returned.

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

We must trust everyone and no-one

There are no superstitions but those you invent

And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.

When we were desperate or hopeful or deluded or embattled enough to go for help we went to people with letters after their names and prayed that they might have read the right books that had the right words in them never suspecting the terrifying truth that the right words, as simple as they were had not been written yet

What's the point of a god who never intervenes?

The vast majority of us are far more capable than we realize. We grow up with parents, teachers, bosses all telling us what we can't do. Don't touch it; you'll break it. They mean well, but they leave us with a sense of our own incapacity. When the day comes, if it comes, that you begin to believe in yourself, the world will be yours. —Mara

But the reality is that sometimes a good lie may be what we really need. Provided we can make it sound like truth.

Religion is like having children, or taking medicine, or eating, or any of a thousand other perfectly rational human activities: Taken in small doses, it has much to recommend it. One need only avoid going overboard.

The vast majority of us are far more capable than we realize. We grow up with parents, teachers, bosses all telling us what we can't do. Don't touch it; you'll break it. They mean well, but they leave us with a sense of our own incapacity. When the day comes, if it comes, that you begin to believe in yourself, the world will be yours.

This line of thinking, ascribing agency and individuality to women, an individuality which may lead to different outcomes than men's, violates the foundational myth of the Blue Church: all people everywhere are exactly the same, including their preferences and life choices.

Feminism will have you believe women are oppressed and maligned, tortured by male power, and forced into submission to the patriarchy.

You want the truth? You can't handle the truth

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad

I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals.

Be blessed in the name of man. And if any god deny you for this, I will deny that god.

In low levels of consciousness it is unwise to believe, trust or follow our thinking