Belief Quotes

It's true not because it's beyond doubt, but because we believe it to be true. We make it true. We are safe as long as no one can disprove us

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I believe despite my doubts, belief gives me power reason takes away

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

False belief is more emotional than true belief

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes we believe it is truth, not because it is truth but because it has been made truth by law or tradition. Some of those truths are nothing but dogmatized myths

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Stop blaming evil on the Devil, blame it on the Creator of everything, if you don't understand, ask Him or at least hope that someday He will reveal it to you

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it’s not a false idea

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The best way to earn paradise in the afterlife is to create it in your life and in the life of your neighbor

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I don't believe god has a darling tribe or nation, all tribes and nations are his darlings.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The veracity of their words was another matter, but at least they believed them. The southern white man was spat from the loins of the devil and there was no way to forecast his next evil act.

~ Colson Whitehead

We believe we have dived down to the most unfathomable depths, and when we reappear on the surface, the drop of water that glistens on our trembling finger-tips no longer resembles the sea from which it came. We believe we have discovered a grotto that is stored with bewildering treasure; we come back to the light of day, and the gems we have brought are false – mere pieces of glass – and yet does the treasure shine on, unceasingly, in the darkness!

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

~ Iain M. Banks

INFINITY is an illusion, we are just too lazy to count...

~ Andy Flynn

On any given morning, I might not be able to list for you the facts I know about God. But I can tell you what I wish to commit myself to, what I want for the foundation of my life, how I want to see. When I stand with the faithful at Holy Comforter and declare that we believe in one God . . . I am saying, Let this be my scaffolding. Let this be the place I work, struggle, play, rest. I commit myself to this.

~ Lauren F. Winner

After being told that the Professor “found it possible to believe for a moment in the existence of God,” Isak thought, “Has it been possible to God, at Mount Elgon, to believe for a moment in the existence of Professor Landgreen?

~ Isak Dinesen

I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?

~ Kate Mcgahan

Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself.

~ Peter Boghossian

You worked at night, when the shadows masked you and you were little more than a dream. You hid in the forest or the mountains, away from the steam engines and the lamps of the cities, the things that would expose you, confirming you and stripping you of your mystery. You showed yourself rarely, and only to the ones who needed to see you. After the free-for-all that was the earlier Chapters, when babies were stolen, young men murdered and maidens locked away, the fae had had to learn to be very careful about their involvement in the lives of the characters, lest they turn still further away from their beliefs.

~ F.d. Lee

Belief is half of healing.

~ Patrick Ness

Any belief worth embracing will stand up to the litmus test of scrutiny. If we have to qualify, rationalize, make exceptions for, or turn a blind eye to maintain a belief, then it may well be time to release that belief.

~ Laurie Buchanan

There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost.

~ Salman Rushdie

When you learn to trust and believe in yourself—your thoughts, feelings, and intuition—you give others the opportunity to trust you.

~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

It cost nothing to think bigger than you are, BUT cost a fortune to think less of yourself.

~ Olawale Daniel

Belief, Faith, and God do not ask you to follow them blindly. Choose it with all your heart!

~ Nikita Dudani

I am responsible for what I believe and, I might add, for what I refuse to believe, because the content of what I do or do not believe makes a tremendous difference to what I become and how I act.

~ J.p. Moreland

Every time someone tells me I can't do something the more I want to do it, not to prove them wrong but because I always knew I could do it.

~ Justin Bienvenue

People say it's madness, Others call it danger, I call it Alternative Normality.

~ Sumeet Mathur

You will only rise to the level of your belief.

~ Catrice M. Jackson

Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

As believers, our reaction to crisis reveals our heart toward God.

~ Andrena Sawyer

The power of belief is that is should change lives not create chains.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.

~ Criss Jami

Hope is the fuel within all human souls.Eliminate hope—nothing moves, nothing grows.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The truth of who you are and what you believe is projected in your behavior. Everything else, either positive or negative, is a mix of stories, lies, delusions, and manipulations.

~ Steve Maraboli

There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.

~ Steven Saylor

Don't get me wrong. It's a lovely idea. It's very romantic. 'Just believe' and you can experience magic. It's why grandmothers the world over knit the word Believe into blankets for their grandchildren. His elbows resting on the arms of his chair, Mister Fox waved his hands in a vague, circular gesture. There's just one little problem. It's completely wrong. It's backward. When you believe in something, you stop questioning it. You stop looking for answers and ignore other possibilities. Only minds that are truly open to possibility can see magic. It's people who aren't sure - of themselves, of the world, of their place in the world - who can see and experience magic.

~ Adam Shaughnessy

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.

~ Roger Scruton