Top 1200 Belief In God Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Sometimes you've got to #? believe in someone else's belief in you until your #? belief kicks in.

Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

The only reason we go to temples is in the belief that God will solve all our sorrows in life.

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

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.

When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.

President Obama came into office in '08 with the belief that - and the public's belief in him - that he was moderate, that he wasn't a big spender.

In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.

They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.

I want to believe in a personal god who looks after me and my loved ones and knows every sparrow that falls. But the suffering of one single child, or more likely, millions is evidence against that belief. The one question I want to ask god: how do you explain or justify the suffering of a child?

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.

A belief is not a belief until you can visualize it, unless you can create a picture of it in your minds eye, especially if you have no doubts that reality can be - or is - possible.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person "to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion." Neither can constitutionally pass laws or impose requirements which aid all religions as against nonbelievers, and neither can aid those religions based on a belief in the existence of God as against those religions founded on different beliefs.

I always had a background belief in God. In other words, instinctually I've never doubted that we are not alone.

As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do not speak. We are left to believe. Fools, children. Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

In the journey of an entrepreneur, the most important thing is self-belief and the ability to convert that belief into reality.

When you go against the best... a lot of series are won on fear factor or the non-belief. When you have that non-belief, then you have no chance.

In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is creditable to the subject's competence.

Let's remember what truly unites us. It's a common belief in a better economic future. A belief in a meritocracy.

Belief is not truly belief while doubt can still touch it.

Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident to him, and no amount of logical discourse will move him from his belief. If a Mormon and Catholic were to debate the merits of their respective religions, neither could see his own inconsistencies and logical fallacies, but would see the other's quite clearly.

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.

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.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

Belief is the most important thing in football. Not quality, running, or being strong but belief, faith, and fight.

The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and Pali Canon offer guidance to people of other religions. If you and I could dig up documentation that contradicted the holy stories of Islamic belief, Judaic belief, Buddhist belief, pagan belief, should we do that? Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that the Buddha did not come from a lotus blossom? Or that Jesus was not born of a literal virgin birth? Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

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.

I believe certain doctrines because God says they are true; and the only authority I have for their truth is the Word of God. I receive such and such doctrines, not because I can prove them to be compatible with reason, not because my judgment accepts them, but because God says they are true. Now this is one of the best services we can render to God,-to submit ourselves to him in our belief of what he has revealed, and ask him to fix his truths in our hearts, and make us obey them.

As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.

Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.

Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.

What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

Belief, humble belief, is the foundation of all righteousness and the beginning of spiritual progression. It goes before good works, opens the door to an eternal store of heavenly truth, and charts the course to eternal life. . . . Belief is the brilliant beacon that marks the course through the waves and woes of the world to that celestial harbor where rest and safety are found.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents.

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.