Belief Quotes - Page 67

I'm joyful in my religious belief.

The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

The Guru and Disciple relationship is where the person has a 100% belief in the Guru and that way you put your trust in the Guru, that he's going to get you out of this mess. If you are a Christian, then Christ is your Guru, and they're all disciples of Christ.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.

As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

Believe you can and you can. Believe you will and you will. See yourself achieving, and you will achieve.

Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for inquiry.

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.

I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.

What the enlightened person sees no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief. We live in a universe filled with wonder. It is wonder just to live.

Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.

The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.

... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.

Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven.