Quotes About Belief

Reality never changes. It is our attitudes about reality that change.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

As the ancient Gnostics patiently explained almost two thousand years ago, there is no greater trap than to believe one has arrived at "the completion of all completions"—when in reality one hasn't even arrived yet at the very first mystery of existence behind which all the other mysteries after mysteries lie. Then even liberation traps us in its net, thanks to the elegance and grace and speed with which we are caught by what we're sure has set us free.

is amazing how many people, if granted just one wish, would ask for "world peace". If it is such a common desire, why has it not happened? Is it because we can't visualize what is required for it to occur? Or because we cannot imagine what such a world would look like? Is it that we just don't recognize the major impediments, or is it because those impediments are a part of our long-standing, indoctrinated belief systems and therefore too difficult for

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”

Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ëThe LORD has not appeared to you.í”

“This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”

And the LORD said, “If they refuse to believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe that of the second.

But if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. Then the water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground.”

When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

You must not allow a sorceress to live.

You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.

And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.

He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,

But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Are you contending for Baal? Are you trying to save him? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal is a god, let him contend for himself with the one who has torn down his altar.”