Quotes About Belief

People under thirty haven't yet stopped believing that something wonderful can suddenly happen.

Professional psychics use astrology all the time. Why? I don't know. I would think that a true psychic would be the last person who would have any use for astrology, even if it were true.

Even today, other young people—not all of them Witnesses—face pressures to salute the flag under pain of suspension.

It is a mistake to consider any belief more liberated than another. It is the possibility of change which is important. Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents. There is no freedom from duality on this plane of existence, but one may at least aspire to choice of duality.

A] competent magician should have the ability to stand still at a bus stop with closed eyes and have the entire universe disappear apart from a single blazing visualised sigil or muttered spell.

Always consider the qualifications of anyone who assumes or professes authority, what do they really know? Authorities on spirituality can rarely give a half coherent explanation of what they persuade us to believe they know. They achieve authority by stage management and then exploit audience suggestibility. Same old trick they have pulled for thousands of years.

As belief in one's capabilities self-evidently leads to increasing capabilities, magicians consider it worthwhile to believe in their ability to accomplish the impossible, even if they only succeed at this occasionally.

There is no formal hierarchy in the chaos tradition of magic. There is a division of activity depending on ability as it develops.

They believe the "Bible to be God's written revelation to his people," and that "it records in human words what God desires." Their

Confession or Brief, Simple Statement of Faith of Those Who are Called Mennonites in Prussia"35

There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views.

We should all let our inner voices take control from time to time. Let them have their say. We let them take control when we're driving down the motorway sometimes, and they don't do a bad job. Maybe we all need to have a little more faith in ourselves.

He liked to believe he mattered.' Grace smiled, thinking privately, we all do.

Religion asks why. Science asks how.

Las personas que tenían una profunda fe religiosa eran afortunadas; podían abdicar todas sus responsabilidades en Dios.

She wished, sometimes, that she could trust God, and surrender all her concerns to Him. How much simpler that would make everything.

Dieu et mon droit».

Faith hears the truth of the gospel, believes it and then acts upon it.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

El evangelio, y la experiencia que fluye de él, deben conservar su prioridad, porque si no es así no tendremos nada con lo que evaluar la validez de la experiencia.

No puede existir una versión auténtica del cristianismo sin una entidad lingüística conocida como la palabra de Dios.