Quotes About Belief

Did she herself even believe in God anymore? Why argue over a phantom? They were two fools arguing over lies.

This finding suggests that the placebo effect explains the apparent clinical effectiveness of antidepressants. In other words, improvements in mood may be a result of the patient's belief in the power of the drug—not the drug itself.74

That's remarkable too, she thought; whenever we make a noble statement it sounds false in our ears.

Karl Rahner said, 'I don't believe in miracles, but they sustain me.

Svrha je takozvani život poslije smrti?" "U koji ti ne vjeruješ", rekla je Emmylou. "Naravno da ne!" "Pa ?ega se onda bojiš? Nestanka? Nestaješ svake no?i svojeg života. Pa što onda zna?i ako zavlada trajni mrak? Ti ionako ništa ne?eš znati, po definiciji.

We live out in our everyday relationships what we believe about God. That is, there is a direct connection between what one believes and how one lives.

Samuel McDermott or not, I was Ian McDermott, and the way I saw life was the way I'd live life.

When you spot someone with failings, see them the way they one day can be. Pray them to be that.

Faith comes from having confidence in the universal force that guides us and having confidence in ourselves that we are more then capable.

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

Why is it so hard to explain the basis of state authority? The most likely reason is that there is no explanation for political authority, because political authority is a fiction.

Government is an extremely prominent and fundamental feature of the structure of our society. We know that people tend to have a powerful bias in favor of the existing arrangements of their own societies. It therefore stands to reason that, whether or not any government were legitimate, most of us would have a strong tendency to believe that some governments are legitimate, especially our own and others like it.

You can change your life by changing the way you think about yourself and your potential.

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

Don't worry about him," Nana would assure them. "Michael will do more in his life than you can ever imagine.

I've dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to crest, but each of us, quite rightly, believes that it might be ours; an act of faith.

Christopher Reeve had believed in a formula: optimism + information = hope.

Hope is informed optimism

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

Faith, for Paul, is a death experience, a death that creates life.

Faith, therefore, is a liberation that is also an incorporation, specifically an incorporation into Christ the new lord, and into his body.

faith is an inauguration into a community and into a life of dying, or cruciformity.