Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

Discipleship is rooted in a deep belief in the universal reign of God through Christ. To be a disciple is to acknowledge that reign and to embrace the lifelong journey of submitting more and more of every aspect of your life to His good, just, and peaceable reign, as well as alerting others to God's kingship by both word and deed.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

Do not act following customary beliefs.

Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

Do not get angry because others question what you believe, be calm and loving, for anger is the root of a faulty belief.

Don't back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

Don't be afraid of your own strength.

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.

Don't judge your success by other peoples opinions. Have self belief.

Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

Don't let the world around you defeat the belief within you.

Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.

Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will.

Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist.

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.

Doubt tempers belief with sanity.

Equations are the devil's sentences.

Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless; or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which case it is dangerous.

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake.

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don’t even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe.

Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for inquiry.

Even our beliefs have become trend statements.

Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.

Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life.

Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it.

Everybody feels like an outcast because the world is so large and every fingerprint is so vastly different from one another, and yet we have these standards and beliefs, and dogmatic systems of judgment and ranking, in almost all the societies of the world.

Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Every time you share your vision, you strengthen your own subconscious belief that you can achieve it.

Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.

Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.