Quotes About Belief

Always the padre told us that the wine is the blood of Christ and it's Him you are drinking from the cup, His life on your lips. But the padre was wrong - blood is not life, water is

An interesting aspect of Cayce's teachings on faith is that he perceived virtue as a fruit of faith. (262-18) As one lives in faith, one's heart and mind become increasingly virtuous. He added that a virtuous heart and mind are a fertile field for a spiritual understanding about self and life. This understanding would naturally arise with one whose faith gives life to virtue, which in turn gives life to a greater understanding.

After only a few minutes of back-and-forth questions their arguments always unravel—yet their conviction remains. One lesson I've learned from these years of public engagements with Christian apologists is that the arguments they offer for their faith are not the reason they have faith.

If prayer actually worked, everyone would be a millionaire, nobody would ever get sick and die, and both football teams would always win. —Ethan Winer

It is true that some of the miracles of the Bible are reported to have occurred in the presence of a good number of witnesses. But it must be emphasized that the testimony of one person, or even of four, that some event was witnessed by a multitude is not the same as having the testimony of the multitude itself.

Humans are capable of having transcendent, transformative experiences in the absence of any given dogma. We are capable of sustaining elaborate systems of false belief and transmitting them to our children. We are capable of feeling so certain about our false beliefs that we are willing to kill or die for them. One

There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.

Just because something 'happens', because it is 'true', because the 'facts' are correct, does not ensure that it is the truth.

Once I climb in, will they believe it's me even if they know who I am, or think I'm just a John Waters impersonator? Which I am in a way every day Ã¢â'¬Â¦ only older.

The biggest risk is that a lot of people will try to talk you out of pursuing your dream. The world has too many people who are happy to discuss why something might not work, and too few who will cheer you and say, I'm there for you. The more time you spend navel-gazing, the longer you give those negative gravitational forces to keep you in their tether.

Right now what I need to think about is what would be possible, not all the reasons I can't make a change.

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.

A mentor must always guide, never push. It was my job to listen to them, offer my perspective, and encourage them to pursue the ideals they believed to be true.

Have something to believe in; have a reason to believe in it, but stay open-minded.

You must believe in what you're doing, that what you're doing is the proper thing, the right thing. And you must have faith that things will end up as they should, which doesn't mean as you want them to, but things will work out as they should.

Even if we were big underdogs I always felt anything could happen. Often enough, I was right. That's also why I never assumed we were going to win.

Your faith, whatever it may be, is the greatest shelter of all.

Trusting is part of our higher nature. Doubting is a lower instinct. The latter is easy to do, the former more difficult—but so much more rewarding.

Solid respect without fear is what I was after. I wanted them to believe in themselves without being self-centered, intimidated or naive.

I believe that things are directed in some sort of way. I'm not exactly sure how. I also believe that things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.

Thing is, I am not a big fan of hovers. I firmly believe that if man was meant to fly we'd have feathers, rubber bones, or better insurance coverage.

Waaal, there's some would call it a bush, I suppose, but I call it a tree. If I'm ever in doubt about how much credit to give a thing, I always give it more, to be on the safe side.

Maybe we have an exaggerated belief that we have to stay in bed just to get through the day or that we can't go out of the house and do things. Views like these lead readily to what is sometimes referred to as "illness behavior." We begin to build our psychological life around our preoccupations with our illness, injury, or disability, while the rest of our life is on hold and unfortunately atrophying along with the body.

It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not "you" or "reality." For instance, if you have the thought that you have to get a certain number of things done today and you don't recognize it as a thought but act as if it's "the truth," then you have created a reality in that moment in which you really believe that those things must all be done today.