Belief Quotes - Page 47

We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

Believe things, rather than man.

[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that "speak" about the basic nature of their relationship.

Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.

I see the main problem as a spiritual one, not a resource problem, or a problem with this or that government, but a larger problem centered around human beliefs, the troublesome elements founded in our mythology. Our problematic mythology is collapsing all around us. It is a mythology that is predatory.

There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

Fear is a belief - beliefs can be changed.

Your belief system saturates the space around you.

One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.

It is the belief and not the god that counts.

No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.

if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.