Quotes About Belief

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.

Belief creates behaviors.

Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. "Do you believe there is a devil?" asked one. "No," said the other promptly. "It's like Santa Claus: it's your father."

Replace "This project is so big and important" with "I can take one small step.

The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will being to reflect your true identity.

People love conspiracy theories.

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

Attendance on Sundays does not transform lives; Jesus within their hearts is what changes people.

The true well-being of the church: when she cannot count on anything anymore but God's promises. -Johannes Hoekendijk

When we start putting together systems to make sure that future generations obey, what we end up doing is building an institution that conforms people to a pattern. They don't have their own faith, they're living off the residue of faith of a previous generation.

If one-tenth of what you believe is true, you ought to be ten times as excited as you are.

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

Fairy tales are more than true–not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.

People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.