Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

The true determining factor of our belief system is not what we're saying, but how we are living.

The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large, by consensus.

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

The Voice did not consider itself a conventional magazine. It took me awhile to realize that it was named The Voice for a reason. They wanted voices. At the time, good magazine stories were still believed to be written in the third person based on the false belief they were more objective. Of course some conventional stories require third person, but in the really interesting stories - the ones I got do to at The Voice and Esquire - were about subjectivity, subjectivities.

The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

The word "truth" itself ceases to have its old meaning. It describes no longer something to be found, with the individual conscience as the sole arbiter of whether in any particular instance the evidence (or the standing of those proclaiming it) warrants a belief; it becomes something to be laid down by authority, something which has to believed in the interest of unity of the organized effort and which may have to be altered as the exigencies of this organized effort require it.

The world is evolving, and there is an acceptance of all beliefs, in my observation.

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.' And?' Chaos theory throws it right out the window.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and that the world does not end at their housedoor.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.

This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.

This is the belief of the Left: You negotiate with evil, and get tough with your allies

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

This show is our own personal beliefs.

This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.

Those who believe in ghosts always see them.

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.

Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

Thought is the strongest thing we have.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

Thought plus belief equals manifestation.

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

Through our perceptual systems, we represent our surroundings, aiming to do so accurately, where the aiming is functional or teleological, rather than intentional. And the same goes for our functional beliefs. Through our judgments, however, we do intentionally, even consciously, attempt to get it right.

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.