Quotes About Belief

Who heeds not experience, trust him not.

...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

We should never let our experience influence what we think about our potential.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily we can become and at times in my experience are like the religious right.

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

It is a fact beyond question that there are two kinds of Christian experience, one of which is an experience of bondage, and the other an experience of liberty.

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.

Regardless of whether you believe in the Singularity, you will most likely experience the benefits of it. But we don't really know.

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

Imagine everything you're experiencing now being a hundred times more wonderful. Bad turns good; good turns great. THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE.

If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experience should be.

I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.

In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.