Quotes About Belief

The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.

I am writing this as a profession of faith: I believe in a divine providence; I also believe in God's wisdom and goodness; I trust in his ways, even though they may seem matters of chance. It is not the mighty of the earth who determine the course of history. They think they are the movers, and they are moved.

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

A kid thinking about fairy tales and believing in fairy tales Acts like a sick god, but like a god. Because even though he affirms that what doesn't exist exists, He knows things exist, that he exists, He knows existing exists and doesn't explain itself, And he knows there's no reason at all for anything to exist. He knows being is the point. All he doesn't know is that thought isn't the point. (10/1/1917)

But if God is the flowers and the trees And the hills and the sun and the moonlight, Then I believe in him, Then I believe in him all the time, And my whole life is an oration and a mass, And a communion with my eyes and through my ears.

simÈ›ea de fapt c?, deÈ™i gândea ca ei, îi lipsea înc? acea înfl?c?rare a inimii care topeÈ™te raÈ›iunile multiple ale minÈ›ii în metalul unei convingeri unice. [...] Inima îi era îngheÈ›at? È™i mintea sa nu È™tia s? exprime decât îndoieli.

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.

Un Dios que necesita de la violencia de los hombres para demostrar su fuerza no puede ser nunca el verdadero Dios

más mata un exceso de fe que una buena espada, porque para esgrimir la espada hace falta valor y experiencia, mientras la fe ciega puede ser cosa de cobardes e ignorantes

The Earthkeepers believe that the world is real, but only because we've dreamed it into being. But dreaming requires an act of courage, for when we lack it, we have to settle for the world that's being created by our culture or by our genes - we feel we have to settle for the nightmare. To dream courageously, we must be willing to use our hearts.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. — Buddha

Rather than resign herself to the fate dictated by her medical history, she has chosen a different, if less probable, outcome—one in which she is a shaman.

Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.

Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

Nobody believes anything that's put in a poem.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.