Top 100 Quotes About Belief
#1. The presence of passion, faith, and belief in our hearts is a gift. It's on loan to our souls.
Priscilla Shirer
#2. With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#3. Well, Grimm is important to me for obvious reasons. I'm lucky to be able to do what I love to do for a living. I never, ever forget that. And charity work just helps me feel like I'm doing something to support my belief that we are all one. I'd like to actually do more in the future.
Reggie Lee
#4. The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
Jessica Savitch
#5. All great philosophers, even the atheists, realized that one of the essential attributes of a civilized people is a belief that good will be rewarded and evil will be punished. In
Bill O'Reilly
#7. Night favors belief, and the imagination peoples the air with specters.
Jose Rizal
#8. Belief in God optional. Belief in the self is imperative.
Abhijit Naskar
#9. The Phoenix burns and rebirths from the ashes in the absence of need for witness, acceptance, understanding or belief.
Truth Devour
#10. Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.
Andy Rooney
#11. Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers
#12. Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
Agnes Repplier
#13. No one's ready for a thing, until they believe that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish.
Napoleon Hill
#14. Theologians pitted devotion and morality against belief, defining faith no longer as a way of life but rather as intellectual assent to certain creeds or confessions; their books were filled with "quarrelling, disputing, scolding, and reviling."38
Diana Butler Bass
#15. On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging,
Robert Hughes
#16. Belief, Faith, and God do not ask you to follow them blindly. Choose it with all your heart!
Nikita Dudani
#17. Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
Kent Nerburn
#18. Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?
Isaac Asimov
#19. In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.
Hillary Clinton
#20. My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
Madhur Bhandarkar
#21. Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#22. We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal - the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and comfortable in the spotlight.
Susan Cain
#23. Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.
David Sylvian
#24. Nearly every tribe and nearly every human being has gods. Belief in gods is all over the place. It's universal. It squeaks and squoozes from every pore of humanity.
Howard Bloom
#25. For this world, which lives only through belief, being forgotten is our ultimate death curse. Had you not come, we would have slowly faded until nothing remained. Do not blame yourself for the machinations of fate.
Kathryn Tanquary
#26. Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
Rupert Sheldrake
#27. Even though there is a part of me holding on to the belief that I am now, have always been, and will always be unworthy, I am still willing to love and accept myself.
Iyanla Vanzant
#28. Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
Iain Duncan Smith
#29. Where once there was a void,
Now at least there are
Seeds of splendour,
Becalmed belief for another time.
Scott Hastie
#30. In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.
Thomas Paine
#31. It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
J.K. Rowling
#33. It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever! sooner or later they will give themselves away.
Agatha Christie
#34. I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.
Anthony Collins
#35. I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.
Greg Lake
#36. The second theological perspective that influenced many of the Reformers was the belief that the Great Commission passages already had been fulfilled during the lifetime of the apostles.
Timothy Tennent
#37. Belief as such always has doubt at the bottom. It's knowing that makes wizardry work. Only knowing can banish doubt.
Diane Duane
#38. Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.
Charles Kennedy
#39. Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience. Atheism is no experience only measurement.
Deepak Chopra
#40. We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.
D. Elton Trueblood
#41. It is impossible to be hurt by someone you love contrary to popular belief. Only something or someone you fear can hurt you.
Frederick Dodson
#42. To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
Isaac Newton
#45. The decline of religious belief,which has all sorts of effects on morals and even on politics because religion has been a tool of politics. But today in Europe it ceases to be a tool, it has very little influence in determining political decisions -
Will Durant
#46. It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.
Don Ellis
#47. If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#48. Mechanism as a philosophic doctrine might be defined as the belief that the last machine which human ingenuity has created gives us the final form of reality.
William Barrett
#49. Unless man is commited to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labours in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality
Adam Clayton Powell III
#50. The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
Ellen Key
#51. Attachment to the false view of self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist on their own. To break through this false view is to be liberated from every sort of fear, pain, and anxiety.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#52. Maybe all you needed in life was the belief you could change things. Somehow. Some way.
Holly Bourne
#53. She had believed that she alone could touch his heart, and that likewise his was the only gaze that would ever reach hers. She had left her home in response to his kind words, only to find that this belief had been nothing but the conceit of an ignorant girl.
Noriko Ogiwara
#54. The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.
William James
#55. We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it's dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.
Brene Brown
#56. Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.
Johan Huizinga
#57. A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Frederic Farrar
#58. The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.
Alain De Botton
#59. Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.
Eugene Cernan
#60. But while you were looking out the window, you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly present. Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there, he said,
John Green
#61. Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most foolish. For if it is not founded on trust, belief and acceptance, it's not love.
Leo Buscaglia
#62. Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
Robert Jordan
#63. A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.
Donny Osmond
#64. All that we know, soon shall we abandon. As time will lend itself. Eyes know only what they see. But brave hearts beat on with belief.
Nathalie M. Leblanc
#65. As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and nothing is but what is not.
Samuel Laman Blanchard
#66. By definition, any belief is something that sombody hopes is true; conversely, a disbelief is a hope that something is not true. Neither has anything whatever to do with the real truth, except to obscure it.
William Gilkerson
#67. I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious.
Clive Sinclair
#68. Belief fuels our decisions - even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#69. Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor. The mark of a good actor is the belief with which he gives a shot and Shammiji gave his each shot with a strong belief and that makes him a great actor of all times.
Aamir Khan
#70. If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.
P.Z. Myers
#71. Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#72. Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes onto the world. I can create a different world by changing my belief about the world. Our inner state creates the outer and not vice versa.
John Bradshaw
#73. The difficulty does not lie in finding new ideas, but in escaping the long outdated belief in old ones.
Jeffrey Fry
#74. One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill
#75. A belief in yourself, and your dreams, your ability to achieve them, and the purpose of life are essential ingredients of success. In fact, I tend to believe that success is directly proportional to the degree of belief.
Vishwas Chavan
#76. Faith is built upon belief, and belief is built upon evidence, one step at a time.
Douglas James Cottrell
#77. Belief in a higher power was a form of psychosis.
Claire Merle
#78. My Beloved
Know that my beloved in hidden from everyone
Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs
Know that in my heart she is as clear as the moon
Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul
Rumi
#79. The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.
Robert Kuttner
#81. The belief that all knowledge is culturally determined and therefore lacks certainty is largely the product of an uncertain cultural milieu.
Michael Shermer
#82. If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.
Thomas Sowell
#83. The idea behind The Hole in Our Gospel is quite simple. It's basically the belief that being a Christian, or a follower of Jesus Christ, requires much more than just having a personal and transforming relationship with God. It also entails a public and transforming relationship with the world.
Richard Stearns
#84. Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief.
Morris L. West
#85. Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.
William Kingdon Clifford
#86. The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.
Lucia Berlin
#87. I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
K'naan
#88. I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#89. I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians ... if we were given that opportunity.
Jack Layton
#90. Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.
James Siegel
#91. The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
Maria Montessori
#92. Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.
Rob Bell
#93. (F)or it was the belief of the duchy that no nation can be governed well unless there is a majority which can impose its will upon a minority. A complete balance of pros and antis could produce nothing but deadlock.
Leonard Wibberley
#94. Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in that spirit, he can find much to confirm him in his belief, particularly if he has never examined any short period of the past in day-to-day detail.
Robertson Davies
#96. Belief was a place that people didn't leave until they absolutely must.
Michel Faber
#97. It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief.
Rodney Stark
#98. Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion.
Mohammed Ali Bapir
#99. I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated.
Dylan Moran
#100. The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.
Mahatma Gandhi
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