Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief; and every proposition that is not pure metaphysical jargon and chatter must have some possible bearing upon practice.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.

If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.

If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

If I have a fundamental belief that the universe is created by God, then I also come to the belief that that universe reflects God, it gives me some knowledge of Him. Obviously, therefore, the more I know of the universe is, the more enriched my limited knowledge of God is.

I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.

If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base; I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever.

If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.

If there is any person that I do follow somewhat closely, at least ideas I like, it's been Frederich Nietzsche, but he's been dead a few hundred years. And at the same time, I wouldn't say that I actually, from a political standpoint, like many of his ideas. It just happened to be the core of a lot of my own beliefs of trying to modify my body and live indefinitely. What really applies is an evolutionary instinct to become a better entity altogether.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

If there are no victims in the U.S, then there no need to redistribute wealth. Right? So that needs to be repealed. If there are no victims, there's no need to confer legal status on 1.2 million illegal immigrants. If there are no victims, then the entire justification for liberalism ceases to exist. This is how far Barack Obama is willing to go. Nobody else but me is gonna think of this, but he's undercutting his own philosophical beliefs in order to put words in Mitt Romney's mouth.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.

If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

If you believe in God, that's a belief. If you are an atheist, it's a belief too, because you cannot prove that God does not exist.

If you believe you can do a thing, you can do it.

If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

If you have a lemon; make lemonade.

If you have a sense of yourself, your mission, your belief system, those things will lead you to success

If you keep believing what you've been believing, then you'll keep achieving what you've been achieving.

If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.

If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn't respect that.

If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief - always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to defy it. If you claim to hold a belief but act incongruently, then you don't actually believe it. You're only kidding yourself. Casual faith isn't.

If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.

I had this strange belief, perhaps naively, that somehow, if I kept working hard, and I kept doing it with integrity, that I would get my chance.