Belief Quotes - Page 51

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

The knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It's not rational - it doesn't proceed by scientific investigation - but it's not irrational because it doesn't contradict my reasoning process. It goes beyond it.

I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being.

What is gayer than believing in a household god?

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

There is no such thing as loving or believing too much.

Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.

The way to belief is short and easy, the way to knowledge is long and hard.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.

Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

In the realm of divine consciousness, you can see beyond beliefs, beyond knowing, and beyond not knowing.

There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.

How much we can do, depends on how much we THINK we can do.

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

Roberto Martinez's belief is unbelievable

He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to be met with in his correspondence.

Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.

Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon

Our beliefs become the rules we live by, and then here's what happens: We make ourselves right.

Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental phenomena that a proposition implies makes up its entire bearing upon human conduct.

I grew up a faithful person. I never lost faith. I prayed every day all throughout my life. But at some point in life, my faith became fairly abstract. And I lost this belief that we have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Basically these are beliefs about apocalypse that we have seen as truth in Western civilization for the last couple of hundred years. So we live according to these "truths" and as a result manifesting a life using those beliefs, which can be very self-destructive.