Quotes About Beliefs

Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

I've got a lot of different religious ideas circling through my family, but the positive thing is that I was raised with a lot of openness and compassion.

Don't ever let others impose their self-limiting beliefs on to you. They don't have the courage and spirit that you do.

Tell us which ideas you promote and we will know which type of person you are.

You are known by the thoughts you seed.

The opinions of souls are their state of being.

Every country has its sacred culture.

Champions learn how to develop empowering beliefs and invest a substantial amount of time solidifying those beliefs, mostly through their own self-talk.

Recognize, manage and master your beliefs. They aren't genetic. They are choices. Choose ones that serve you.

Your life is not a result of your potential, skills or desires, but of your consistent expectations and actions, which largely flow from your values and beliefs.

In any given situation you will find only what you bring with you...

Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.

People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying.

Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God's power or presence or purity.

Wealthy people wanted to have servants in the Next Life. Since they couldn't take their living servants with them, they made servant statues. These statues were called shabtis (SHAHB-teez).

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

Whenever people use a word so often that they abbreviate it, it is clearly central to their moral and emotional vocabulary.

If you're prone to social perfectionism, your self-esteem will be dangerously dependent on keeping the roles and responsibilities you believe you have. You'll tend to agree with statements such as "Success means I must work harder to please others." It's not what you expect of yourself. "It's what you think other people expect

Most of us are as comfortable with our misbeliefs as we are with an old pair of house slippers: well-worn, familiar, and always waiting for us, despite the fact that they have out-lived their usefulness.