Quotes About Belief

In spite of his policeman's conditioning, he clung to the belief he'd grown up with: that people, by and large, behaved according to how they were treated.

Don't miss out on blessings because you can't see that.

From cradle to grave, the Religious Right is concerned about every choice you make.

I have a basic rule of thumb that about 2 percent of any large group will believe literally anything, no matter how preposterous it seems to the rest of us.

I made a mental note not to give up all hope in humankind.

More people saying what they believe would be a great improvement. Because I often do I am unfit for common intercourse.-Nero Wolfe in "Blood Will Tell

If you collected all the good faith in this room right now you might fill a teaspoon.

I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. So

The inquiring mind is rarely blessed with certainty; it must make shift with assumptions;

One reason I like to work for him is that he never rides me for not acting the way he would act. He knows what I can do and that's all he ever expects; but he sure expects that.

Such is the ability of man to believe in what at any time he finds it convenient to believe, they may actually have convinced themselves that they were speaking the truth.

Because an argument is used hypocritically, it does not necessarily follow that it is untrue.

If we are to believe in gods at all, we must believe them to be wiser and better than men.

The arguments themselves did not appear to me to be any better simply because they were better expressed; eloquence did not make them true." St. Augustine page 85

In fact, we have no firm notion of how it felt to exist in Rome, Palestine, or Asia Minor some two thousand years ago--burdened with all the assumptions and hopes of our past lives; then confronted in words by the flaming demands of a recently dead, maybe resurrected Jew named Jesus with a ravenous will to change us and the Earth.

Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to the community is indistinguishable from his or her duty to God.

Faith is a choice; anyone who says otherwise is trying to convert you.

Do you believe the world is for you or against you?

The key to taking confident action is trusting the nudge in your soul

The more you trust yourself, the more you will change the world

Speak as if you can do it creates self-belief

Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it!

Absolutely everything you experience in your life is a result of what you have given in your thoughts and feelings, whether you realize you have given them or not.

That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought."(Christian D. Larson)