Quotes About Belief

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.

We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self.

If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

We cannot play with fear nor with too much confidence.

We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.

When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.

I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.

There is a direct relationship between how we feel about Jesus Christ and how we see ourselves. We cannot increase our devotion to the Savior without also obtaining a greater sense of purpose, identity, and conviction.

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent.

It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.

We cannot have the fruits of the gospel without its roots.

I must believe that in words we will find what in fury we cannot.

We cannot give up hope. It's our most important gift.

Some people cling to the belief that the Civil War was fought over states' rights. But history is not on their side. We cannot continue to glorify a war against the United States of America fought in the defense of slavery.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.