Belief Quotes - Page 36

I will see it when I believe it.

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

A belief may be larger than a fact.

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.

I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time for performance arrives, the time for preparation is past.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

A man lives by believing something.

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief - always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to defy it. If you claim to hold a belief but act incongruently, then you don't actually believe it. You're only kidding yourself. Casual faith isn't.

Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.

I've run my mouth pretty good about my beliefs.

An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes.

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

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.

Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it.

I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.