Quotes About Beliefs

Beliefs are more often than not self-fulfilling prophecies. That is why becoming aware of your beliefs is so important. A self-fulfilling prophecy is a belief that is not true but becomes true merely because it is believed.

The spiritual heart has been guiding you all along, but it is often overshadowed by beliefs. When beliefs stop running your life and the heart takes over, your life will change because you will no longer be caught in your personal illusory reality. You will see all the beliefs and stories that created your illusory reality for what they are, and then you will know reality.

I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating toward fairy tales, given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches and wizards for years. We've been exploring the world of vampires for years. Clearly the public - I mean, I feel like all of this was ushered in by 'Harry Potter' - in my own fannish beliefs.

Every issue, belief, attitude or assumption is precisely the issue that stands between you and your relationship to another human being and between you and yourself.

As Graeme Wood, a scholar on the teachings and ideology of ISIS, wrote in the Atlantic, "The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. . . . The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic.

They recognized the significance of man's spiritual nature, of his feelings and of his intellect. They knew that only a part of the pain, pleasure and satisfactions of life are to be found in material things. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone. Even

From the abundance of your heart, your mouth will speak.

What you stand for is what makes you stand out, not your standing. So, I never worry about my standing, only my stand.

Do not confuse your SELF with your beliefs. Thoughts and feelings come and go. YOU remain.

You attract what you THINK and you RECEIVE what you BELIEVE.

Show me a church's songs and I'll show you their theology.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them, he will still feel as the famous woman did about ghosts, Je n'y crois pas, mais je les crains, — "I don't believe in them, but I am afraid of them, nevertheless."

Religions are like farts — yours is good but everyone else's stinks.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

You're an idealist. The idealists are always the revolutionaries, the cat's paws. Then the realists consolidate, compromise and liquidate the opposition.

Stone and sea, the folk of the world hold a great many peculiar beliefs!

The modern-day Priestess is a woman who is deeply spiritual, yet her beliefs and practices are typically not rooted in a particular religion. Instead they are informed by practices that resonate with her spiritual truths.

honor included not only physical and moral courage but also a daring commitment to central beliefs

Opinions are like money. No matter how much you know, there's always someone who knows more.

Time catches up with kingdoms and crushes them, gets its teeth into doctrines and rends them; time reveals the foundations on which any kingdom rests, and eats at those foundations, and it destroys doctrines by proving them to be untrue.

It must be remembered that the oppressed and the oppressor are bound together within the same society; they accept the same criteria, they share the same beliefs, they both alike depend on the same reality.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.