Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

That's what got me through 65 years of life - my belief in God and what He's done for us and what He will do for us.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

The act of being an entrepreneur is a theological act: it is a belief that God has given you the tools to go out, make money and take care of your family.

The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.

The 'Always Keep the Faith' tattoo I have on the front represents my desire to protect my beliefs.

The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.

The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

The beliefs that we use to define our own individuality, what makes us unique - good, bad, or indifferent - from other individuals.

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.

The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.

The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

The belief that a personal life exists apart from God creates experience disconnected from God. This is painful and frustrating. Our spiritual work is to break down the illusion that we have a life here and that a life of God is somewhere else.

The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.

The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.

The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.

The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.

The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.

The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him. [p.250]

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

The correctness of much testimonially based belief is no more than minimally creditable to the believer.

The closer to the top, the more grew in me the belief that it might be fulfilled, which most dreaming.