Belief Quotes - Page 43

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.

Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock

Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your personal power is doing you a disservice.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

Your 'Belief Window' is how you perceive and understand everything in your life... It frames all your views and influences the actions you take, but it can also be wrong or limited.

I don't know what I believe. I think there's a belief system, I'm just not sure what it is.

The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

Celebrate what is possible. Your beliefs will create your reality.

The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to articulate discontent so it is sometimes held not to exist. This mistaken belief arises because we can only grasp silence in the moment in which it is breaking.

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

Be sure to choose what you believe and why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very credible one, will choose you.

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

We're in danger of losing an even more foundational belief of Christianity: that salvation is only possible through faith in Jesus Christ.

Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.

Resurrection is a belief and hope in restoring this world.