Belief Quotes

Hope was what kept the world going. Hope that one day you would find somebody you could love and trust, hope that you would never lose them; hope that your team won the cup this year; hope that you found that dream job; hope that you would find the money to pay the mortgage. But most of all, hope that one day - whatever you have told yourself over that years - you would find that life really does go on beyond the deathbed.

~ Phil Ford

We cannot carve or forcibly preserveor cultivate belief. If it will grow, it growsas we do - mostly after we have fallen

~ Jennifer Clarvoe

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

~ Sara Sheridan

After all, don't care how you want to sit there and deny the knowledge of River Mumma sitting on her rock - don't care how you deny the knowledge of fallen angels who can jump into your body as they please, or the knowledge of ancestors who sit beside your bed and watch when they not harkening on to the sounds of drumming - don't care how you deny any of it, all of it is still true. All of them things still exist, because them do not need the permission of your belief.

~ Kei Miller

I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.

~ Sara Sheridan

Achieving a goal requires endurance and sacrifices beyond limitations.

~ T.f. Hodge

Have you got something against faith?”“Have you got something against reason?

~ Sam Hunter

Belief In SelfIf you quit while pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you've come to success. It might have been hidden behind that next door you decided not to open, since the last fifty doors revealed little or nothing.

~ Kamil Ali

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

~ Dallas Willard

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.

~ Nikola Tesla

The truth is so dear to me that if Orholam stood on one side and truth on the other, I would turn my back on my creator himself.

~ Brent Weeks

It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage. Christian slaveholders treated their slaves as they did the cattle in their fields: they worked them, scourged them, mated them , parted them, and sold them at will. Abolition came with the decline in religious belief, and largely through the efforts of those who were denounced as heretics.

~ Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

I tried to believe in God, but I confess to you that God meant nothing in my life, and that in my secret heart I too felt a void where my childhood faith had been. But probably this feeling belongs only to individuals in transition. The grandchildren of these pessimists will frolic in the freedom of their lives, and have more happiness than poor Christians darkened with fear of Hell.

~ Voltaire

And, suddenly, as if her head cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they're only in my own mind, she thought, they're there and worth fighting for.

~ Diana Wynne Jones

I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

~ Luther Burbank

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

~ Idries Shah

But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the atheist's head. The orthodox believer likes to think that nothing is left. That, however, is because he has only been accustomed to think in terms of his orthodoxy. In point of fact, a great deal is left.That is immediately obvious from the fact that many men and women have led active, or self-sacrificing, or noble, or devoted lives without any belief in God or immortality. Buddhism in its uncorrupted form has no such belief; nor did the great nineteenth-century agnostics; nor do the orthodox Russian Communists; nor did the Stoics. Of course, the unbelievers have often been guilty of selfish or wicked actions; but so have the believers. And in any case that is not the fundamental point. The point: is that without these beliefs men and women may yet possess the mainspring of full and purposive living, and just as strong a sense that existence can be worth while as is possible to the most devout believers.

~ Julian Huxley

The thought that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day of your life! Time will tell, so you got to persist!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some other belief, indifference is always in danger of giving place to some sort of fanaticism that can be as intolerant as any religion has ever been.

~ Lesslie Newbigin

William James used to preach the 'will to believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will to doubt' ... what is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.

~ Bertrand Russell

An ever-growing, ever-constant relationship with God makes us certain of what we believe and enables us to run with endurance.

~ Katy Kauffman

Here is a fundamental difference between the man of faith and the man of unbelief. The unbeliever is 'of the world', judges everything by worldly standards, views life from the standpoint of time and sense, and weighs everything in the balances of his own carnal making. But the man of faith brings in God, looks at everything from His standpoint, estimates values by spiritual standards, and views life in the light of eternity. Doing this, he receives whatever comes as from the hand of God. Doing this, his heart is calm in the midst of the storm. Doing this, he rejoices in hope of the glory of God.

~ Arthur W. Pink

If you keep on saying a single thing to yourself, you are likely to attract it to yourself, dreaming it always, then in a twinkle of an eye, it comes to you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

My breathe would catch at the sight of violets-so common in the woods at home, so surprising in the mountains. The violet's message was Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in. p264

~ Jessica Stern

Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.

~ Luther Burbank

I got to believe that the people who can really be trusted are those who have kept their promises, not under the influence of pleasing people, but under the influence of doing what they have devoted their lives to be doing!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

~ Henry Bessemer

You are guided!

~ Shannon Walbran

Belief in oneself is an essential factor for success in life. It helpsyou surmount challenges on your road to success.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I Think The Fact That A Human Being Created Dettol ... A Product Which Protects You 99%You Should Learn That Nothing In This World Can Do It 100% Except God.

~ Cyc Jouzy

Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.

~ Terry Pratchett

Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can't, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do.

~ David J. Schwartz

In the end, it wasn't so much that there was an alternative narrative--there always was--but it came down to belief: Which one did you want to believe. Which one suited you best? Or, perhaps more to the point: Which one told the story you were already telling yourself?

~ Michael Paterniti

Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When all help is stopped, when your loved ones started doubting your competence, when failure seems almost confirmed, but no matter what, if you make one more attempt, that final step will fetch you the victory.

~ Amit Kalantri

There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide to do as a matter of policy. At least, it is not something I can decide to do as an act of will. I can decide to go to church and I can decide to recite the Nicene Creed, and I can decide to swear on a stack of bibles that I believe every word inside them. But none of that can make me actually believe it if I don't. Pascal's Wager could only ever be an argument for feigning belief in God. And the God that you claim to believe in had better not be of the omniscient kind or he'd see through the deception.

~ Richard Dawkins

God is one and there is but one God — all else is but the way the ignorant seek to put Gods into a form they can understand...

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

Having faith and belief in my inner guidance allows me to see the world in a way that strengthens that faith and belief and brings with it a life filled with welcomed expectation and awe.

~ Charles F. Glassman

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

~ Orson Scott Card

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

~ Elizabeth Von Arnim