Top 100 Quotes About Believing
#1. Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.
King Hussein I
#2. Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine.
Henri Nouwen
#3. In every congregation, spiritual problems and physical needs exist for which the only solution is believing, persistent prayer.
Alexander Strauch
#4. So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do.
Brian D. McLaren
#5. I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see, that folk tales and fairy tales are based on real, if forgotten events, I never accepted that part of it as being real.
Charles De Lint
#6. You must believe to see, see to do, do to improve, and improve consistently to win; therefore, believing is the key to winning.
Orrin Woodward
#7. I know an excuse when I hear one. Don't you dare deceive yourself into believing that you're the victim, Derek Novak.
Bella Forrest
#8. The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry A. Kissinger
#9. We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are 'justified by death' and all you need to do to go to heaven is die, but God's Word certainly doesn't give us the luxury of believing that.
R.C. Sproul
#10. Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.
Peter Rock
#11. I always doubt people ... I've survived by not believing in other human beings.
Julianna Baggott
#12. 28Lord, forgive me, my parents, and whoever enters my house as a believer. Forgive believing men and women but bring nothing but ruin down on the evildoers!
Anonymous
#13. Maybe it will be something exclusively for me, to remind myself that believing in ridiculous things isn't always so bad.
Aaron Starmer
#15. They reciprocated the great and saving lie
that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things
willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#16. Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the 'Wealth of Nations' and the 'Theory of Moral Sentiments,' then I'm rightwing.
Niall Ferguson
#17. Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#18. Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
T.H. White
#19. If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
Malcolm Gladwell
#20. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.
Thucydides
#21. Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is.
Charles F. Glassman
#22. Erase from your mind that your preparation must be perfect. Hard work + dedication = a shot at your dreams. Keep believing.
Kara Goucher
#23. Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that we've engaged in 'right' living, verses believing that living is a 'right.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#24. There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.
Neale Donald Walsch
#25. His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.
Eleanor Catton
#26. So much time spent believing
we had ghosts in our machines has accustomed us to haunting
ourselves.
D.J. MacLennan
#27. I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I try to live by the girl-power motto. It's about believing in yourself, no matter how bad a day you're having, and lending your support to other women. It's empowering to have that camaraderie with other women.
Melanie Brown
#28. I stopped believing in stars when the morning came by.
Salma Abdulatif
#29. after a man reaches ninety-five and hasn't died yet, the people around him become lulled into believing that he never will.
Hope Jahren
#30. A13/ He jumps off a cliff believing he is boarding a boat skippered by his dead wife. A14/ They are both in the air force. A15/ So that she will have a reason to visit him again. Back to Contents
Kathryn Cope
#31. Shouldn't it be atheists, believing they are not being watched, who commit virtually all the crimes and fill up all the prisons, while people who believe in an omnipresent god lead spotless lives out of either respect or fear? But this is far from the world we see.
Guy P. Harrison
#32. When a person, yielding to God and believing the truth of God, is filled with the Spirit of God, even his faintest whisper will be worship.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#33. Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.
Michael Shermer
#34. Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing.
Joel Osteen
#35. My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of his own witness, each with a separate version of culture and history, and the divine essential fire that is poetry itself.
Pat Conroy
#36. If we're honest, we all have some measure of wrong believing in our lives. If you don't believe this, all you need to do is ask yourself, 'Have I often felt anxious, worried, or fearful that the worst would happen to me and my loved ones?'
Joseph Prince
#37. Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining silent for billions of years somewhere outside our universe!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. Try to understand, analyze and find the truth before believing.
Debasish Mridha
#39. Standing for something isn't just about writing it down. It's about believing it and living it.
Jason Fried
#40. Trust your fears Rho. Believing in them makes you safe.
Romina Russell
#41. Sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing atthe right time to the right person, that too-raresensation of having the right thing to say and believing it.
Maggie Stiefvater
#42. The trick and the beauty of language is that it seems to order the whole universe, misleading us into believing that we live in sight of a rational space, a possible harmony.
John Burnside
#43. If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.
Ellen G. White
#44. Everyone believed that to be caught out in a shameful moment when neck muscles relax and the head snaps forward might damage career prospects. But believing was not quite enough. Heavy eyelids in the late afternoon had their own logic, their own peculiar weight.
Ian McEwan
#45. There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is
to live, to work.
Gloria Naylor
#46. Please stop worrying about how much you can do! STOP judging yourself and others on physical abilities and prowess, stop believing MORE is better, stop the madness!
Bryan Kest
#47. Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.
Larry Sultan
#48. Living the gospel does not mean the storms of life will pass us by, but we will be better prepared to face them with serenity and peace. 'Search diligently, pray always, and be believing,' the Lord admonished, 'and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly.'
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#49. My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.
Katherine Moennig
#50. careful evaluation of various surveys has taken place and support the idea that the number of qualified scientists believing global warming is primarily man-made is less than three percent - rather than ninety-seven percent.
Sally Fernandez
#51. Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you're better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.
Simon Sinek
#52. Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?
Maria Rodale
#53. Life is about choices; it's not about excuses. Excuses only trap us into believing that we cannot take control of our own lives.
Michael Gerber
#54. Believing, desiring, deciding, and choosing correctly are the simple actions that define an increase in happiness and an increase in the inner assurance that transcends this life.
Benjamin De Hoyos
#55. You don't like to have people believing that you're doing the wrong thing which is why we're trying to make sure that people recognise that we do the right thing.
Ian McLeod
#56. Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.
Brene Brown
#57. And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.
Norman Vincent Peale
#58. Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.
Philip Roth
#59. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.
D.H. Lawrence
#60. He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.
Ian McDonald
#61. Here's how to create an inspired vision for your life: Change the scope of your thinking from seeing is believing to believing is seeing.
DeWayne Owens
#62. It's a bitch and life's a rollercoaster ride.
The ups and downs will make you scream sometimes.
It's hard believing that the thrill is gone,
But we gotta go around again, so let's hold on.
- Lie to Me
Jon Bon Jovi
#63. Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won't let it be free.
Benazir Bhutto
#64. She fought him by reminding herself what her father had said to Emil Hesping - that they lived in a country where believing had taken the place of knowing.
Ursula Hegi
#66. For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed saves; not the believing in our own faith.
Horatius Bonar
#67. As the season of believing seems to wind down let me gently remind you that many dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before passion performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#68. I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up
I stand on mountain tops believing
that avalanches will teach me to let go
I know
nothing
but I am here to learn.
Shane Koyczan
#69. Many Christians never let the Bible get in the way of their believing, but depend on their logic, tradition, or experience to formulate beliefs.
Paul Silway
#70. For us to move forward, we have to develop the courage to forward what is behind...the hurt/pain and unpleasant memories that haunt us in the dark moments. We must hold on to our faith as we step out in boldness, strongly believing that our very best lies ahead.
Kemi Sogunle
#71. But we couldn't see to form a chain of doubt between each other's eyes. And her voice had a vibrant certainty that made believing her feel liberating and obvious.
Miranda July
#72. No matter what the situation is like we can't stop believing God
Sunday Adelaja
#73. Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.
Peter Cameron
#74. Believing is not thinking something is true, Shireen. It is acting for the truth.
Ian Baucom
#75. We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.
John Henrik Clarke
#76. Sometimes dreams trick you into believing they're real. And then there are other times when, completely out of the blue, life suddenly becomes surreal that you wonder if perhaps you're dreaming after all.
Jill Mansell
#77. People fail, everything fails, the magic we're born believing in and working for and then doubting and finally fearing eventually rusts, rots, fades, breaks down, withers, dies, and turns to dust, and for me the response is always the same. I clean up. It's what I do and
Patricia Cornwell
#78. It's not about people believing the story. It's about you knowing and holding it to be true.
Joan Ambu
#79. So many things happen that we can't control, its best not to worry about what we can. Believing you can change the world has a terrible effect on one's ego.
Bauvard
#80. The psychic scars caused by believing that you are ugly leave a permanent mark on your personality.
Joan Rivers
#81. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.
Walt Disney Company
#82. Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing
by dint of ignorance and innocence
that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.
Gregory Maguire
#83. We don't usually talk about American nationalism, but it is a mark of how deep it runs that we apply the word "nationalism" to Serbs, Russians, and others, while believing ourselves to possess a uniquely superior version called
Barbara Ehrenreich
#84. You can do anything as long as you don't stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You just have to follow your heart.
Keke Palmer
#85. The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
Byron Katie
#86. There's a gap between people knowing what I do and really believing that I still do that - and wondering what it is I really do.
Bill Cosby
#87. Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.
Robert Fulghum
#88. ...she had a faith that was almost religious in believing a thing must be so if a man would bother to write it out seriously and bind it in a book.
Josephine Johnson
#89. How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?
John Paul Caponigro
#90. If ignorance is bliss, believing lies is orgasmic.
Cassia Leo
#91. Religious relativism is not the answer to disagreement between faiths; yet relativism, and a blurring of religious distinctions, all too often result when two deeply believing faith communities engage each other in the public arena on theological issues.
Meir Soloveichik
#92. Reality was what went on inside people's heads. And in front of him were hundreds of people really believing what they were seeing ...
Terry Pratchett
#93. He remembered believing there had been a time when monsters roamed the earth. The brave hearted fought flesh-and-blood dragons instead of shadowboxing their inner demons, the sport of modern man.
Katherine Starbird
#94. Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#95. Bittersweet is the practice of believing that we really do need both the bitter and the sweet, and that a life of nothing but sweetness rots both your teeth and your soul.
Shauna Niequist
#96. You cannot will yourself to be happy while believing that you have no right to happiness, or that you are unworthy of it. You cannot tell yourself to release aggressive thoughts if you think it is wrong to free them, so you must come to grips with your beliefs in all instances.
Jane Roberts
#97. But something pulled her through, and that was when I knew there was something more to faith than just believing in a God. It was knowing him in such a way that you could go through hell on earth and still say he is love.
Ann Tatlock
#98. Respecting religions is not simply a question of universal tolerance; it is a question of believing that all religions are true.
Narendra Modi
#99. We are so trained into believing the worst, into thinking some people are beyond hope. What if it's our lack of belief that makes people hopeless? What if we can change the world just by hoping for the best instead of settling for the worst?
Marilyn Grey
#100. Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw
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