Quotes About Belief

The fact that it does not feel natural to you to be what you imagine yourself to be is the secret of your failure.

All things express their nature. As you wear a feeling it becomes your nature. It might take a moment or a year—it is entirely dependent upon the degree of conviction. As doubts vanish and you can feel "I AM this," you begin to develop the fruit or the nature of the thing you are feeling yourself to be.

Outer reforms are useless if the inner state is not changed. Success is gained not by imitating the outer actions of the successful but by right inner actions and inner talking.

All men have had proof of the power of faith. The faith that moves mountain is faith in yourself. No man has faith in God who lacks confidence in himself. Your faith in God is measured by your confidence in yourself. I and my Father are one, man and his God are one, consciousness and manifestation are one.

Not realising that all that he encounters is part of himself, he rebels at the thought that he has chosen the conditions of his life, that they are related by affinity to his own mental activity. Man must firmly come to believe that reality lies within him and not without.

In the midst of all the doubts and changing opinions of others, let there be a conviction, a firmness of belief, and you shall see the dry land; your belief will appear. The reward is to him that endureth unto the end. A conviction is not a conviction if it can be shaken. Your desire will be as clouds without rain unless you believe.

In spite of your appearance of freedom of action, you obey as everything else does, the law of assumption. Whatever you may think of the question of free will, the truth is your experiences throughout your life are determined by your assumptions — whether conscious or unconscious. An assumption builds a bridge of incidents that lead inevitably to the fulfillment of itself.

The world is a mirror wherein everyone sees himself reflected. The objective world reflects the beliefs of the subjective mind.

It is these psychological forward motions that produce your physical forward motions in time. Precognition permeates all the scriptures of the world.

It does not matter what the appearances round about you are like. All things make way for the coming of the Lord. I AM the Lord coming in the appearance of that which I am conscious of being. All the inhabitants of the earth cannot stay my coming or question my authority to be that which I AM conscious that I AM.

you must assume that you already are what you want to be and then live by faith in this assumption

Everything in this world invites you to wander away from the I AM. Urged to believe in that pill, this diet, a man, you move away from your true identity and become lost as your consciousness wanders. But it doesn't really matter, for you cannot be lost, as the son of man will come.

El ser humano actúa como lo hace y pasa por las experiencias que tiene, porque su concepto de sí mismo es lo que es, y por ninguna otra razón.

Him, that is able to do more than you ask or think is your imagination, and the power that worketh in us in your attention.

You can take anyone and represent him to yourself as the man (or woman) you would like him to be and, if you do not waver in that representation, he will conform to it.

If you want someone to be big in your world, you must make him big in your mind first, and treat him that way morning, noon and night. If you see him as that being, he cannot fail, because he must become what you behold. But you cannot waver. The moment you listen to a rumor, you change the picture, and you cannot.

When the annunciation is made, when the urge or desire is upon you, believe it to be God's spoken word seeking embodiment through you. Go, tell no man of this holy thing that you have conceived. Lock your secret within you and magnify the Lord, magnify or believe your desire to be your saviour coming to be with you.

Do not selfishly define this interval in days and hours because you are anxious to receive it, but simply remain in the conviction that it is done—time, being purely relative, should be eliminated entirely—and your desire will be fulfilled.

Prove all things hold fast that which is good.

And they don't know anything else They don't know they're breathing bad air. But I'm tired of living like this And my soul cries out, 'If You're there..

It is rather that I believe in the reality of what's being named more than in the name itself.

The church, with its eternal call for submissive trust and blind obedience

They do a certain amount of mischief, they're an almighty nuisance, but as murderers I've no real faith in the British anarchist.

Is it Locke who says that it is one thing to show a man he is in error and another to convince him of the truth? You have shown me my error. Pray reveal the whole truth.