Belief Quotes

Prakruti [the relative self, innate nature] has opinions and may store them but we should stay in an opinion-free state. ‘We’ are separate and the relative self is separate from us. ‘We’ should play our part as a separate entity. We shouldn’t get involved with those problems.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What is arrogant pride (abhimaan)? It is to believe the weight of the body-complex [pudgal] to be one’s own weight. It is to believe that ‘I am Great’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

How can we win souls for Christ? We must continue to preach the gospel of salvation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only the ‘Right belief’ gives rise to non-contradicting principle and that which is free from contradiction is known as ‘Principle’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Religion means researching the true Eternal thing with Deluded world view (with wrong belief) and ‘this’ (akram vignan) is a science itself.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Egoism has arisen due to circumstances and circumstances have survived due to egoism. The one whose egoism is gone, for him circumstances are gone. Everything has come into existence because of wrong belief.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.

~ Hafiz

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

~ Robert Anton Wilson

Science is knowledge meeting humility meeting curiosity: ever-evolving, always learning. Atheism is often but knowledge meeting arrogance: a masquerade under the wing of the beauty of science. Religion is infamously a weight under the one wing; then under the other is atheism, the championed masquerade.

~ Criss Jami

If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.

~ Criss Jami

The greatest literature is the Biblical stories.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Stop explaining to others, people will only understand from their level of discernment.

~ Abhysheq Shukla

Fear is the most prodigious enemy of our soul

~ Abhysheq Shukla

Respect is reverence out of love, Fear is reverence out of hate.Choose Wisely

~ Abhysheq Shukla

Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs contrary, however. To wit: history admits no rules; only outcomes.What precipitates outcomes? Vicious acts & virtuous acts.What precipitates acts? B

~ David Mitchell

Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is the humility of a child, which Jesus lauded. It is the humility of the scientist and the mystic. It has a lightness of step, not a heaviness of heart. That lightness is the surest litmus test I know for recognizing wisdom when you see it in the world or feel its stirrings in yourself. The questions that can lead us are already alive in our midst, waiting to be summoned and made real. It is a joy to name them. It is a gift to plant them in our senses, our bodies, the places we inhabit, the part of the world we can see and touch and help to heal. It is a relief to claim our love of each other and take that on as an adventure, a calling. It is a pleasure to wonder at the mystery we are and find delight in the vastness of reality that is embedded in our beings. It is a privilege to hold something robust and resilient called hope, which has the power to shift the world on its axis.

~ Krista Tippett

It’s a wonder of human behavior: we build our own handcuffs that trap and harm us. We create the myth, and we honor it. We tell the lie, and we believe it.

~ Raif Badawi

As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970, she took refuge in her belief that she was making progress as a writer. But she realised that both systems of survival were, however, fundamentally illusory. She wrote, she said, quoting Oscar Wilde because, 'Work never seems to me a reality, but a way of getting rid of reality'.

~ Andrew Wilson

As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything.

~ Max Weber

It is almost impossible to shake of one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull that had you been brought up by Martians, you would have the same attitude toward eating and being eaten as Mike has.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

When I see a garden in flower, then I believe in God for a second. But not the rest of the time

~ Svetlana Alexievich

The fullness of life is wrapped in all sacred times: plenty and scarcity, happiness and sadness, planting and harvesting, sunrise and sunset, winter and springtime, summer and autumn, beginning and finishing, birth and death…!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

By the power of God, everything came into existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Through comedy, we can touch core societal beliefs and transform them completely. I believe we can get to the truth of some deep societal ideologies, and begin to transform them into a new understanding. Far too many promote hateful ideologies, and we must do much more to bring our cultures together, in love and peace.

~ Catherine Chen

it's more than ok to say no to the people and places that harm your peace.

~ Nikki Rowe

It's good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren't actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you see them for who they truly are.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Use your senses to SEE yourself for who you truly are. SMELL the flowers and become one with nature. TASTE the goodness of God. HEAR the truth. TOUCH the hearts of others with kindness and honest deeds.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into existence what you believe, desire, dream, and hope.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Stop seeking attention from people who don't give you the time of day. Value your time, comfort your spirit, have peace of mind. There are people who love you and care about you.Give your smiles to them.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

If life is a song, you must be the superb lyrics to a sweet melody.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Take some time and figure out what you desire most from life. Wherever your desire is, your heart will be also. Seek the opportunity to become greater than your circumstances. You may not be where you want to be. But if you continue pushing forward and striving at a steady pace, you'll get there. All things take time.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Jesus Christ lives in all people. We are citizens of one world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Peace of mind, joy at heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The change from self-centeredness to human-centeredness is the key to peaceful existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The glorious presence of God is with us. Let us rise in mighty strength to build the nation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I trade all my pains for the peace of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I trade all my pains for peace of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A blessed deed is saying hello with a smile to someone you meet on the street, in the shop, in the bus, in the office, in the church, in the holy places, in the mosque, at the park, at the school, at the university…..’ This is the greatest action of belonging to one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God bless all people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are all human, so we may trespass each other. But there is always grace for forgiveness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita