Belief Quotes - Page 39

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

We dwell in shadow or in sunlight . . . according to our belief.

Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.

A belief in God and a belief in astrology cannot be reconciled.

Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one God, to doubt that recreates and enlivens faith and doubt that is really disbelief.

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.

The victory's in believing.

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

Unbelief is a belief.

I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.

No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.