Quotes About Belief

If anything was certain, it was that there would always be people looking for someone to tell them what to believe in and what to do.

Let me assure you doubters?there really is a Santa Claus. I learned from working on this book that you don't need to go to the North Pole to find him. It's only necessary to look into your own heart.

In fact, in its most basic form, socialism was a belief in more equitable distribution of wealth, with everyone afforded the opportunity to thrive in accordance with personal achievement regardless of race or social position.

Jimmy's two earliest and most enduring lessons from his mother were these: there was always some Them out to get you, and reality was whatever you believed.

Belief is frequently a matter of convenience rather than the result of objectively weighing evidence.

The consensus was what they termed "Christian communism," since they believed that "from each according to ability, to each according to need" was the proper church approach.

If there was something about Jones's demands on his followers that they didn't understand, it shouldn't be questioned—God didn't want them doing that, either. To challenge Jim Jones was to challenge the Lord, and God would respond accordingly.

For the first time, though only in private, he began incrementally revealing the considerable divide between the Bible-based religion he still preached and his true beliefs. Jones talked about reincarnation—not only his faith in it, but his conviction that "Jim Jones" was simply the latest physical manifestation of a spirit previously occupying the earthly bodies of other great men, all of them dedicated to equality and justice.

A big surprise for W.D. was discovering that Clyde and Bonnie both prayed frequently. The religious faith ingrained in them by their mothers hadn't been entirely abandoned.

Nothing was more important than the cause, facts included.

someone who reads their horoscope in the daily newspaper is considered a practicing occultist, because he is looking to astrology for answers and direction instead of to God.

If I had not known that the Bible shows demons are impersonators of the dead, I probably would have always continued to believe that Mum and I were just unlucky and had somehow attracted the wrong type of spirits to us. I'd have continued to believe we had mischievous or obnoxious spirits pretending to be my grandmother and sister, and that's why they later attacked us. It never before had crossed my mind as a spiritualist that all the spirits were imposters!

Nothing will cost you more in life than a predetermined belief that things aren't going to work out.

Atticus, Dan is right, Atlantis is a myth." "Everybody was pretty sure Troy was a myth," Jake said. "Until Calvert and Schliemann found it.

The men her girlfriends dated were too often angry and muttering about oppression. One of the reasons she took to Skeet later in life was that he never went to that place; he believed with a firm positivity that he didn't need to waste time resenting real or imagined social constructs because he would always be ahead of them. The individual, not the people, was responsible for success or failure.

People bring their own shit to the way they see things. If they don't believe what you're doing is right, that's their choice. But the choice has more to do with them than with you. Don't worry about it. You made your own choice.

She was also taking a big risk by hoping this sacrifice would mean something. If Rob turned out like any other rough boy in the neighborhood––if her son wasn't special like she believed he was––she feared the disappointment that would follow too much striving on her part.

On that night he made clear to his secret society that the fundamental conflict of his life was founded on precisely that belief: the white establishment would always keep the common black man down in order to cover their own asses.

What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Whether you think you can—or think you can't—you're right! — HENRY FORD

thought precedes action.

your thoughts don't change, your results won't change.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. — DR. JOYCE BROTHERS

When you believe you can do something, you have the courage to move forward despite being afraid.