Quotes About Belief

There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God....Dropping their present beliefs, they will recognize harmony and as the spiritual reality and discord as the material unreality. Chapter VII pp. 224 and 228 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

There is too much animal courage in society and not 29 sufficient moral courage. Christians

Resurrection. Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding. (SH 593:9)

I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.

a perverse and unruly superstition

In Rome there was no doctrine as such, no holy book and hardly even what we would call a belief system. Romans knew the gods existed; they did not believe in them in the internalised sense familiar from most modern world religions.

who wryly observed that no one would believe there was a plot against an emperor until he was found dead?

He spotted, for example, the importance of religion, or 'fear of the gods', in controlling Roman behaviour

One of the purposes of 'culture', after all, is to make seem 'natural' claims that are not naturally at all; the flimsier the argument, the more noisily it is supported.

Dogma is something you believe intellectually or on faith. Wisdom is something you know through Direct Experience!

these white people have lost their own gods and mislaid their souls. They have trouble dealing with reality, with death.

The miraculous is the least one must aim at.

And above all don't underestimate yourself. If you can't display the goods in your own shop window no one else is going to do it for you.

Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.

Cleery said, "We'll pass it on, Knobs. There'll still be magic in the world.

Butterfly Garden is especially important to me because it delves into sibling relationships and family hierarchy as children and as adults. It also deals with metamorphosis on various levels and an eventual letting go… of old beliefs, habits, rituals. Just as the butterfly sheds its cocoon to emerge in dazzling splendor, so too, if given proper nurturing and guidance, do we.

The Lord only gives us what we can handle and

If she thought the bad thought silently, but said the good thought out loud, then that was the one that would count in the end.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

E ela se perguntou como era possível fazer da miséria uma religião.

The mind determines what is possible. The heart surpasses it.

Now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Whom having not seen you love....Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory.