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Within this confusion a few fundamentals remain constant:a. A strong belief is more important than a few facts.b. The stronger the belief, the fewer the facts.c. The fewer the facts, the more people killed.
— Milton A. Rothhman, A Physicist's Guide to Skepticism
Even if it doesn't alter or change the end result even in the slightest... making decisions based on convictions that you believe in... and walking your own path... has it's own merit and worth. There's something to be said for not having... even on regret.
— Tite Kubo, Bleach―ブリーチ― 74 [Burīchi 74]
i am my religion. my belief is love. god is within [self].
— The Nyghtlie Poet
Any thought sequence that minimizes anxiety would get reinforced over time. The sequence would be maintained during the person’s development and would be provoked in contexts where refutation of the belief might occur. So, any kind of refutation of a person’s religious beliefs makes the beliefs only stronger.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
You don't struggle with these questions?""No. But I've always thought my opinion was the right one. It's a small flaw I have.""An American flaw.
— Lily King, Euphoria
Please beware," came his reply, "There are a lot of people who believe that just because we don't have an explanation for something, it's quantum mechanics.
— Mary Roach, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Anyway, God is not susceptible to proofs and disproofs. If you believe, the evidence is all around you. If you don’t believe, no evidence can be enough.
— Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ
Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience.
— Abhijit Naskar
A little holiday spirit lives forever in everyone. Test your own holiday spirit. Give away all of it you can. You'll see, it comes right back to you.
— Ray Palla
It was not the philosophers and the prophets who taught us to believe in life after death
—  all they did was give form and spiritual content to an instinctive perception as old as man himself.
I wonder sometimes if I'm not, after all, a piece in some other player's game, following blindly his grand designs without ever knowing that my path along the board is only a feint, while the important matters are played out elsewhere by other men. But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: To see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost. When a life spins out as joyfully as mine has done, then the price, one paid so painfully, is now recalled in gladness. I have received full value. Here among the shepherds, my cup is filled with the water of life; it overflows.
— Orson Scott Card, Treason
Your Personal identity created by the experiences of the past, simply floats on the awareness field of the mind, while all the important tasks of life, is performed by the subtle strings of the spirit.
— Roshan Sharma
Life flows as a whole, both inside and out, but you divide life with your mind, both inside and outside.
— Roshan Sharma
​Blind faith may be healthy for the individual mind, but it is not religion.
— Abhijit Naskar
And I told him that I believed in God because I had seen His opposite. I had seen all that He was not, and been touched by it, and so I could no more deny the possibility of an ultimate goodness to set against such depravity than I could deny that daylight followed darkness, and night the day.
— John Connolly, The Burning Soul
It doesn’t matter whether you face the wall, the sky or the ground. It doesn’t matter what is your body posture while you are praying to God. It doesn’t matter whether you sit in a lotus position, or a bogus position, neither does it bother God whether your palms are joined together, or your arms wide open. God would still answer your prayers, not because he/she loves you all as his/her children, rather because you believe that God does.
— Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality
Every brain on your planet generates its own beliefs. Just imagine, around seven billion human brains are generating seven billion unique beliefs at this very moment. Now imagine, what would happen, if all those seven billion humans start imposing their own beliefs on each other. The only thing that is going to come out of such inhuman attempt is chaos and eventually mass extinction. So, the only way to avoid such a catastrophic consequence is to be more compassionate about people’s beliefs.
— Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality
Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
How about we meet at midnight tomorrow and try this. I close my eyes, believe in you, and there you'll be.
— Jaclyn Moriarty, The Cracks in the Kingdom
The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religious patients seemed to differ little from those without a religion.
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying
There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it’s time to believe the gnawing.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
People always say that they want to understand so that they can believe. But in MY reality it’s just the opposite. I believe because I DON’T understand. I HAVE to believe, because there’s no other way to explain what I’m seeing, feeling, or experiencing.
— Sean Patrick Flanery
You get the results your belief dictates
— Tony Curl, Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck
You are powerful, you are unique, you are a gift to yourself and others.
— Akiroq Brost
Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we’ve given them permission to be impossible.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Aren't we constantly discovering how mistaken some of our cherished beliefs were? That is what progress is. We learn continually to cast aside outgrown notions and adopt wiser and better ones.
— Sara Ware Bassett, Carl and the Cotton Gin
Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do.
— Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
An enduring belief in light rises above the darkness of night.
— Margo Kelly, Unlocked
I think believing in something is what matters most.Believe in nature or believe in love or believe that bydoing the right thing you can make some differenceto another human being or an entire generation.
— Rachel C. Weingarten, Ancient Prayer: Channeling Your Faith 365 Days of the Year
You can, and you will. If you’re going to carry any belief, carry one that empowers you. Believe in your unlimited potential.
— Akiroq Brost
We can do so much if we just Believe in our own potential.
— Akiroq Brost
I shall not repent of my faith.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
All Egypt is obsessed with death! And do you know why, Renisenb? Because we have eyes in our bodies, but none in our minds. We cannot conceive of a life other than this one - of a life after death. We can visualize only a continuation of what we know. We have no real belief in a God.
— Agatha Christie, Death Comes as the End
The true god has no beginning and has no end, it was not begotten and cannot beget, it cannot die and resurrect. He is responsible of everything good and evil and he is the sustainer of life. If he can save he saves all without distinction
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
It's true not because it's beyond doubt, but because we believe it to be true. We make it true. We are safe as long as no one can disprove us
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
I believe despite my doubts, belief gives me power reason takes away
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
False belief is more emotional than true belief
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Sometimes we believe it is truth, not because it is truth but because it has been made truth by law or tradition. Some of those truths are nothing but dogmatized myths
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Stop blaming evil on the Devil, blame it on the Creator of everything, if you don't understand, ask Him or at least hope that someday He will reveal it to you
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it’s not a false idea
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
The best way to earn paradise in the afterlife is to create it in your life and in the life of your neighbor
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
I don't believe god has a darling tribe or nation, all tribes and nations are his darlings.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The veracity of their words was another matter, but at least they believed them. The southern white man was spat from the loins of the devil and there was no way to forecast his next evil act.
— Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
We believe we have dived down to the most unfathomable depths, and when we reappear on the surface, the drop of water that glistens on our trembling finger-tips no longer resembles the sea from which it came. We believe we have discovered a grotto that is stored with bewildering treasure; we come back to the light of day, and the gems we have brought are false – mere pieces of glass – and yet does the treasure shine on, unceasingly, in the darkness!
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.
— Iain M. Banks, Inversions
There's a difference between religion and faith," Chandi said, "Religion means you've accepted a set of beliefs even if those beliefs would appear to be irrational to anyone who doesn't buy into them. Faith means you've chosen to accept something that you've given yourself the chance to question.
— Allen Steele, Arkwright
A few days before the confirmation service, she told her father—the pastor of the church—that she wasn't sure she could go through with it. She didn't know that she really believed everything she was supposed to believe, and she didn't know that she should proclaim in front of the church that she was ready to believe it forever."What you promise when you are confirmed," said Julian's father, "is not that you will believe this forever. What you promise when you are confirmed is that that is the story you will wrestle with forever.
— Lauren F. Winner, Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
INFINITY is an illusion, we are just too lazy to count...
— Andy Flynn
On any given morning, I might not be able to list for you the facts I know about God. But I can tell you what I wish to commit myself to, what I want for the foundation of my life, how I want to see. When I stand with the faithful at Holy Comforter and declare that we believe in one God . . . I am saying, Let this be my scaffolding. Let this be the place I work, struggle, play, rest. I commit myself to this.
— Lauren F. Winner, Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
After being told that the Professor “found it possible to believe for a moment in the existence of God,” Isak thought, “Has it been possible to God, at Mount Elgon, to believe for a moment in the existence of Professor Landgreen?
— Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa
I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?
— Kate McGahan
Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself.
— Peter Boghossian
You worked at night, when the shadows masked you and you were little more than a dream. You hid in the forest or the mountains, away from the steam engines and the lamps of the cities, the things that would expose you, confirming you and stripping you of your mystery. You showed yourself rarely, and only to the ones who needed to see you. After the free-for-all that was the earlier Chapters, when babies were stolen, young men murdered and maidens locked away, the fae had had to learn to be very careful about their involvement in the lives of the characters, lest they turn still further away from their beliefs.
— F.D.  Lee, The Fairy's Tale
Belief is half of healing.
— Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
Any belief worth embracing will stand up to the litmus test of scrutiny. If we have to qualify, rationalize, make exceptions for, or turn a blind eye to maintain a belief, then it may well be time to release that belief.
— Laurie Buchanan, PhD
There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost.
— Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
When you learn to trust and believe in yourself—your thoughts, feelings, and intuition—you give others the opportunity to trust you.
— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, Balancing Work, Relationships & Life in Three Simple Steps
It cost nothing to think bigger than you are, BUT cost a fortune to think less of yourself.
— Olawale Daniel
Belief, Faith, and God do not ask you to follow them blindly. Choose it with all your heart!
— Nikita Dudani
I am responsible for what I believe and, I might add, for what I refuse to believe, because the content of what I do or do not believe makes a tremendous difference to what I become and how I act.
— J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul
Every time someone tells me I can't do something the more I want to do it, not to prove them wrong but because I always knew I could do it.
— Justin Bienvenue
People say it's madness, Others call it danger, I call it Alternative Normality.
— Sumeet Mathur, The Tide of the Pensieve
You will only rise to the level of your belief.
— Catrice M. Jackson
Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin
— Henri Frédéric Amiel
As believers, our reaction to crisis reveals our heart toward God.
— Andrena Sawyer
The power of belief is that is should change lives not create chains.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
God is so much bigger than our ‘what ifs’ that he can turn them into ‘why nots
— Gary Rohrmayer
You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.
— Criss Jami
Hope is the fuel within all human souls.Eliminate hope—nothing moves, nothing grows.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
The truth of who you are and what you believe is projected in your behavior. Everything else, either positive or negative, is a mix of stories, lies, delusions, and manipulations.
— Steve Maraboli
There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.
— Steven Saylor, Rogues
Don't get me wrong. It's a lovely idea. It's very romantic. 'Just believe' and you can experience magic. It's why grandmothers the world over knit the word Believe into blankets for their grandchildren." His elbows resting on the arms of his chair, Mister Fox waved his hands in a vague, circular gesture. "There's just one little problem. It's completely wrong. It's backward. When you believe in something, you stop questioning it. You stop looking for answers and ignore other possibilities. Only minds that are truly open to possibility can see magic. It's people who aren't sure - of themselves, of the world, of their place in the world - who can see and experience magic.
— Adam Shaughnessy
Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.
— Roger Scruton, The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope
You can worship God twenty four hours a day but your destiny depends on the cards he lets you play
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
After all, I wasn’t even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because being born into a belief tended to make me feel more like I belonged to it instead.
— J.D. Brewer, The Birth of Anarchy: Vagabond's Sequel
Don't worry, my son, if you don't believe in Maribor  and the blessings He provides. Belief in Him isn't a requirement. It doesn't stop Him from believing in you. (capital H's added for reverence)
— Michael J. Sullivan, The Death of Dulgath
In the beginning there was faith-which is childish; trust-which is vain; and illusion-which is dangerous.We believed in God; trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark from the Shekhinah's flame; that every one of us carries in his eyes and in his soul a reflection of God's image.THAT was the source if not the cause of all our ordeals.
— Elie Wiesel
I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?
— Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
Why do people go to these places, these places that are not for them?It must be that they believe in their night vision. They believe themselves able to draw images up out of the dark.But black wells only yield black water.
— Helen Oyeyemi, White is for Witching
If you need someone to explain morality to you, then you likely have little of it to draw from.
— Auliq-Ice
He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
I know you don't believe what you teach. But I believe all what you teach. Either I am the fool or you are.
— Prinx Maurice
Keep faith in your abilities to deal with an uncertain next
— Utpal Vaishnav
Being poised to shatter the adaptive illusion of God is arguably one of the most significant turning points our species has ever faced in its relatively brief 150,000-year history. The belief instinct may never be completely deprogrammed in our animal brains, but by understanding it for what it is rather than subscribing uncritically to the intuitions it generates, we can distance ourselves from an adaptive system that was designed, ultimately, to keep us hobbled in fear.
— Jesse Bering
but even if true belief about matters of importance is of intrinsic value, it does not follow that the value of truth should always trump every other value with which it might compete.
— Tim Bayne, Thought: A Very Short Introduction
Stress is a dragon.Believe in it and you’re toast.Slay your stress.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
If an ontology predicts almost nothing it ends up explaining almost nothing, and there's no reason to believe it.
— Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
The universe is math on fire.
— Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds
Don't judge people on their Religion, Family Or Country they live ... Judge People On Their Nature..!!
— Sagar Pandit
Love is so many things, but it is not safe.
— Shannon L. Alder
I think we all have to believe in something greater than ourselves. Something as distant and magnificent as the stars.
— Leila Rasheed, Cinders & Sapphires
It really is more natural to believe a preternatural story, that deals with things we don’t understand, than a natural story that contradicts things we do understand. Tell me that the great Mr Gladstone, in his last hours, was haunted by the ghost of Parnell, and I will be agnostic about it. But tell me that Mr Gladstone, when first presented to Queen Victoria, wore his hat in her drawing-room and slapped her on the back and offered her a cigar, and I am not agnostic at all. That is not impossible; it’s only incredible. But I’m much more certain it didn’t happen than that Parnell’s ghost didn’t appear; because it violates the laws of the world I do understand.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Complete Father Brown
What is it that makes us who we are and what we are? Is it only our blood, the color of our hair, our skin, and our eyes? Or is it believing in what we believe and living the way we live?
— Aleksandra Layland, Ansgar: The Struggle of a People. The Triumph of the Heart.
Doubt is the act of challenging our beliefs. . . . This is an active, investigative doubt: the kind that inspires us to wander onto shaky limbs or out into left field; the kind that doesn't divide the mind so much as multiply it, like a tree in which there are three blackbirds and the entire Bronx Zoo. This is the doubt we stand to sacrifice if we can't embrace error—the doubt of curiosity, possibility, and wonder.
— Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
You must give him time,' said her grandmother;'and you must be content not to be believed for a while. It is very hard to bear; but I have had to bear it, and shall have to bear it yet. I will take care of what Curdie thinks of you in the end. You must let him go now.
— George MacDonald
God is light.God is knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Spirit of spirits!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We have believed in any number of things - the tooth fairy, cold fusion, and benefits of smoking, the free lunch - that turn out not to exist. We all subscribe to preposterous beliefs; we just don't know yet which ones they are.
— Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692
Belief is the driver that gives energy and power to achieve your potential.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Your belief is mostly your prison! To discover the world outside your prison, you must first realize the walls surrounding you! Otherwise you shall continue being stuck in the prison of childish tales and fallacious illusions!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Your true friends echo your own philosophies back at you.
— J.R. Rim
What we believe about something often creates the outcome we experience.
— Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brought with them.Human: You don’t believe in God?Hive Queen: The question never came up. We have always remembered how we began.Human: You evolved. We were created.Hive Queen: By a virus.Human: By a virus that God created in order to create us.Hive Queen: So you, too, are a believer.Human: I understand belief.Hive Queen: No—you desire belief.Human: I desire it enough to act as if I believed. Maybe that’s what faith is.Hive Queen: Or deliberate insanity.
— Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
When you take your belief for granted,failure takes you for rides.
— Israelmore Ayivor, You Can Rise
Believe in yourself. That's real magic.
— Odette Beane, Reawakened
Sometimes it’s about knowing people, all of the time, it’s about knowing God!
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.
— Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Come what will, one comfort's always left — that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
A little thought thought over and over becomes the thought that changes everything. Always choose to believe the best about yourself.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
We can no longer believe that after death, if we have sinned, we shall enter hell. Hell has been acted out here on Earth in the time of Nazi Germany, when even the innocent went in their millions to a hell that beggars the imagination. A profound change in attitude has come about as a result.
— Brian W. Aldiss
Belief.” He snorted. “I could kiss a thousand crosses. Fucking belief.
— Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife
I don't know what I mean, but I know I believe it.
— Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers
People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first hear it.
— Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell
People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first heart it.
— Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell
After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.
— Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia
If you want money more than anything,you will be bought and sold.If you have a greed for food,you will become a loaf of bread.This is a subtle truth.Whatever you love, you are.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
Those who know you don’t need explanations, those who don’t won't believe you.
— Chris Geiger, Bad Cells
When asking for advice, search not for what is on the surface, Dig deeper, questioning what does this person believe in?
— J.R. Rim
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
— Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
You can be an atheist three seasons out of the year, but not during spring. Spring makes it mandatory to believe in a Divine Creator.
— Toni Sorenson
It is what writers do, imagine and feel the pain of others, sometimes at the expense of feeling their own. Here, then, in these pages is mine, the fear of death, of loss, of unexpressed love. Here is the truth told in a story. And in the telling of it perhaps I have found some way to have courage, to believe.
— Niall Williams, Only Say the Word
We must stand firm between two kinds of madness: the belief that we can do anything
—  and the belief that we can do nothing.
My fear of standing alone often pressures me to stand with a rather unsavory group that embraces a rather unsettling belief system which leaves me wondering why I left the promises of God for the company of people.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
Belief, hard work, love - you have those things, you can do anything.
— Mitch Albom, For One More Day
There is diversity of belief but it is the same God at work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Generate the belief in what you wish to achieve.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
You are surrounded by endless possibilities with your potential being the sum total of your beliefs.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Believing in or trusting fate is akin to gambling.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
...it's exemplification of our moment in American culture and American cultural journalism. It is an accurate document of the discourse of "takes." This movie, that book, this poem, that painting, this record, that show: Make a smart remark and move on. A take is an opinion that has no aspiration to a belief, an impression taht never hardens into a position. Its lightness is its appeal. It is provisional, evanescent, a move in a game, an accredited shallowness, a bulwark against a pause in the conversation. A take is expected not to be true but to be interesting, and even when it is interesting it makes no troublesome claim upon anybody's attention. Another take will quickly follow, and the silence that is a mark of perplexity, of research and reflection, will be mercifully kept at bay. A take asks for no affiliation. It requires no commitment.
— Leon Wieseltier
Those persons achieves the success who sustains their beliefs among the change of conditions.
— Aditya Pandya
Neruda poem that talked about ‘the light of hidden flowers.’ It’s easy to believe in people when they have it all together on the outside. It’s way cooler to believe in them when what they have is still a little buried.
— Jennifer Handford, The Light of Hidden Flowers
You are only as limited as your beliefs.
— Jennifer Ho-Dougatz
Believe in the potential of obtaining or achieving a desire.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Without Scripture, our words would be without meaning!
— Mary Kate
Trust your fears Rho. Believing in them makes you safe.
— Romina Russell, Zodiac
In the wilderness, our faith is tested, and God faithfulness is manifested.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The Lord is my Saviour.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.
— Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
The mighty miracles of the Lord are marvellous!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every believer is also a nonbeliever because he does not believe in the things nonbelievers believe in
—  every nonbeliever is also a believer because he believes in the things believers do not believe in!
Life after human life I chased her, but they don’t believe in magic things.
— Denny B. Reese, The Broken Court
Only the Saviour saves souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Talent and work ethic are nothing without belief.
— A.D. Posey, Coffee Chatter
Flowers are evil, because they live just to die for the love of other people. You don’t believe me? Try it for yourself and see if you’ll be good afterwards. Undeath is a way of life, for some things. That doesn’t make it good or anything. Especially anything. Nothing makes anything anything. Because nothing is a serious matter, and anything just is.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
At the quantum level our universe can be seen as an indeterminate place, predictable in a statistical way only when you employ large enough numbers. Between that universe and a relatively predictable one where the passage of a single planet can be timed to a picosecond, other forces come into play. For the in-between universe where we find our daily lives, that which you believe is a dominant force. Your beliefs order the unfolding of daily events. If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.
— Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so—therefore—are their beliefs.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire
A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
An agnostic is a creature that is religiously skeptical whenever it is told that God exists … or that He doesn’t.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You know how they say a holy man falls seven times and gets back up?" he asked, quoting the Hebrew phrase, the ancient words flying smoothly off his tongue. I nodded. "I always think that it isn't the persistence that makes him holy but the fact that he fell." His eyes sparkled with passion as he spoke. "You can't really commit to being religious, to loving God, if you haven't spent some time with your face in the dirt.
— Leah Vincent, Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood
With every new day come the Lord’s great love, grace and mercies.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
True faith is unconditional.It is simply the reverence and aspiration towards a certain kind of spirit.Faith is not even the means of obtaining reward.Faith itself is the end.
— Xue Mo
Reputable scholars might have denied its authenticity, but there are always other scholars who disagree--and people will believe what they want to believe, never mind the evidence. If there is anything life has taught me, it is that there is no idea so absurd that someone will not accept it as truth, and no action so bizarre that it will not be justified in the eyes of a true believer.
— Elizabeth Peters
We are a blessing to each other.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Wisdom is a sacred gift from God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The gospel of salvation, the divine truth, set us free.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The inner voice is divine voice of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
God has given me life
—  He is capable of anything else.
Quit beating yourself up, beat your goals up instead.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
All things that live must die. Man alone it seems lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on – otherwise he is useless. For most men, that purpose revolves around marriage and children who will carry on his seed. For others it is an ideal – a dream, if you like. Each of us here believes in a concept of honor: that it is a man’s duty to do that which is right and just; that might alone is not enough. We have all transgressed at some time. We have stolen, lied, cheated – even killed – for our own ends. But ultimately we return to our beliefs. We judge ourselves more harshly than others can judge us. We know that death is preferable to betrayal of that which we hold dear.
— David Gemmell, Legend
In the light of love, I find the glory of God’s grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Begin each new day with your knees bow in prayer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We are only mortal flesh.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You are one belief away from breakthrough. It’s a choice, so choose the next right thing, you can do it!
— Joshua Stannard, How Good Can It Get
Renew your mind with word of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
If you want to know the one thing that will allow you to grow faster than anything else, it is the belief that you may be wrong about absolutely everything you believe. When you can question your beliefs at every possible turn, your opportunities for growth expand exponentially.
— Kelle Sparta
Beyond the visible is invisible.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The greatest patient is to wait for God to act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Belief is where Magic, whether light or dark, is based on. Without belief, there is no Magic.
— Melanie Houtman
The will of God is good, acceptable and perfect
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.
— Constance Renfrow, "The Edge of Happiness" Songs of my Selfie
Let me give you a New Year message: Believe in yourself, because no one ever achieved anything significant without believing in himself and no one ever will! Believe in yourself powerfully, especially when there is no reason left to believe in yourself because the ultimate bottom is the best place to start a big rise!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The strength within us comes from God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
May the Lord heal the broken hearted.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
God is a living Spirit. The Spirit is life.Life is divine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
May you find infinite hope in the Lord.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You.
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
We need God’s great-grace in all spheres of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
My idea of Christmas is love. Love exists at all times.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
There are angels on the tree?”“Ah, because we all pray there are really angels watching over us, don’t we?
— Heather Graham, Home in Time for Christmas
You don’t so much as become an atheist as find out that’s what you are. There’s no moment of conversion. You don’t suddenly think ‘I don’t believe this anymore.’ You essentially find you don’t believe it.
— Christopher Hitchens
If we love God, we will love another. Love is God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The word of God is full of assurance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You say how much I love you, "I never let my mind interfere when I'm with you", isn't it enough sign of how much I trust and love you...my dear!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
If someone’s beliefs are fixed and false, he or she can do anything to justify their beliefs.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
Anything is possible for she who believes. Believe you can and you're halfway there.”Jeanette Coron
— Jeanette Coron
Every difficulty draws us toward a higher power than ourselves.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley
—  but not at all so to believe or not in God.
He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn't believe in people.
— Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low
Sooner or later you realize there are no answers, no answers except the ones you believe. Sooner or later faith is the only answer left.
— James Rozoff, The Association
Once a person has made some sort of stable, symbolic connection between two things, the connection will influence his subsequent behavior and will generate its own 'proof.' This is why it is idle and foolish to try to 'refute' religious, political, and similar beliefs with empirical arguments about referents that are symbols to the believer but not to the non-believer.
— Thomas Szasz
I believe in God, who controls every sacred-event.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We are justified by faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We need to develop new strategies to overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen.
— David    Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
The sacred-time determines the due events.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
People sometimes cling to the strangest beliefs. On the one hand, they believe in an all loving God, but on the other hand they believe He will give you cancer to test or mature you.
— Paul Silway, Heaven I - Paradise: The City and Throne
When all hopes are lost then the desire to believe in God is our belief.
— Het Desai
When we dwell on the God’s promises; we find the faith, hope and courage to survive life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I'm a good liar. A great one. And to be a great liar you have to live your lies, to believe them, to the point that when you tell them to yourself enough times, even what's right before your eyes will bend itself to the falsehood.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Fools
Our group takes what I'll call a Post-Atheist stance. Our position is that god is a creation of human beings, who only exists because of the clap-hands-if-you-believe-in-fairies principle. If enough people were sensible enough not to clap hands, then this Tinker Bell god would die. However, unfortunately, billions of human beings are still prepared to defend their belief in some sort of god-fairy, and, as a result, god exists. What’s worse is that he is now running amok.
— Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
There is a reason Mary is everywhere. I've seen her image all over the world, in cafés in Istanbul, on students' backpacks in Scotland, in a market stall in Jakarta, but I don't think her image is everywhere because she is a reminder to be obedient, and I don't think it has to do with social revolution. Images of  Mary remind us of  God's favor. Mary is what it looks like to believe that we already are who God says we are.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
When you say you believe, you allow the possibility of disappointment. And from disappointment or betrayal, there may come despair. Such is the way of the mind.
— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Genuine surprise is a great help when faced with an unwelcome duty. Of course, when it’s the paying of debts you’re forgetting, that can lead to broken fingers. And worse. I guess it’s a form of lying— lying to oneself. And I’m very good at falsehoods. They often say the best liars half-believe their lies— which makes me the very best because if I repeat a lie often enough I can end up believing it entirely, no half measures involved!
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Fools
I'm surprisingly unconcerned with what people in my church believe. Belief is going to be influenced by all sorts of things that I have nothing to do with, so I don't feel responsible for that. I'm responsible for what they hear — and hearing the gospel, the good news about who God is, slowly forms us over time.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
So there you have it: you must believe in something...and that is universal! Believing in nothing is a belief system in itself.
— Kazeem Olalekan, The Doctrine of Universal Truths
And although Frieda B. didn't feel it inside, the belief of her friend gave her courage to try.
— Renata Bowers, Frieda B. and the Finkledee Ink
Great God.Glorious God.Gracious God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We often behave as though Jesus is only interested in saving and loving a romanticized version of ourselves, or an idealized version of our mess of a world, and so we offer to him a version of our best selves. With our Sunday school shoes on, we sing songs about kings and drummers at his birth, perhaps so we can escape the Herod in ourselves and in the world around us. But we've lost the plot if we use religion as the place where we escape from difficult realities instead of as the place where those difficult realities are given meaning.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
The Lord lit my life
—  with the light of your love.
I do not know your woes, Humans, but I do know that they are abundant. Believe in each other, and stand together, and you will conquer them all.
— Paul The Astronaut
Life is long and dumb and devastating. People should believe whatever they need to believe to get by.
— Katie Coyle, Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle
you want to knowwhether i believe in ghostsof course i do not believe in themif you had knownas many of them as i haveyou would notbelieve in them either
— Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel
New Atheism simplicity is the byproduct of collective groupthink, and the internalization of self-congratulatory jingoistic clichés and generalizations. They know because they know, and there's no reasoning with someone who knows."- The New Atheist Threat: The Dangerous Rise of Secular Extremists
— CJ Werleman
The honest investigator must be prepared to follow wherever the search of truth may lead. Truth is often found in the most unexpected places. He must, with fearless and open mind "insist that facts are far more important than any cherished, mistaken beliefs, no matter how unpleasant the facts or how delightful the beliefs.
— Hugh B. Brown
All dreams are realities waiting for us to believe in them.
— Gillian Duce, Magic and Mayhem
The Lord is great.The Lord is gracious.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs.
— Sunday Adelaja
Success is living what you believe.
— Teresa Collins, Live LIFE in All Caps: The Teresa Collins Story
Amen” means ‘Yes’, it is done, glory to God!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Trust is a fragile thing. All it takes is a single moment in time, or a single word, to destroy what took a lifetime to build.
— Auliq Ice
We hope to receive what we long for.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Grace is the power of God!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.
— Dean Cavanagh
We have nothing to lose in this life: We came naked into the world and we will exit naked.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Idealism easily becomes dangerous because it brings with it, almost inevitably, the belief that the ends justify the means. If you are fighting for good or for God, what matters is the outcome, not the path. People have little respect for rules; we respect the moral principles that underlie most rules. But when a moral mission and legal rules are incompatible, we usually care more about the mission.
— Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences.
— Dean Koontz, Innocence
Do you ever wonder about the fairy tales of life?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I live every day as if I can die any moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
God will save us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We must repent while the chance exists, to confess our sins.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
— Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking
The highest function of humanity is belief, that activity of spirit that proceeds upon the pathway of reason, until it comes to some great promontory, and then spreads its wings, and upon the basis of its earlier journeying, takes eternity into its grasp.
— G. Campbell Morgan, Gospel According to Mark
The more we grow in faith, the more we grow in love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Despite my height, ignorance, heartbreaks, insecurity, criticism, competition, my skin color, that voice in my head that says 'No way', bad luck, a tight budget, insults, fear, flaws, failure and opposition. I believe in myself.
— Manasa Rao
We wait patiently to receive want we desire.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Hope is a great assurance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
True belief is movement toward God even in the midst of confusion or frustration or fear.
— Emily P. Freeman, Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World
I trust God to meet my every need.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.
— Stephen L. Carter, Back Channel
I feel so blessed to be alive and so blessed to have to have a father that loves me no matter how much wrong I do in this world.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
How gracious to forgive the people who hurt you
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You are the light. Rise and shine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
O Lord, grant my dearest husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita, the spirit of prayer and the grace to read thy word.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
May God grant you the anointing of the Holy Ghost.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
God created all people.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Whatever your situation, there exist hope
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Everybody prayed
—  everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights.
Even if I say something, do not believe this nonsense, but do not disbelieve it either. Just see, "Someone is willing to sit in front of so many people and talk absolute nonsense, something that is totally absurd. Let me see what this is about." If you keep that much openness, the possibility is alive in your life. If you believe it, you will kill it. If you disbelieve it, you will kill it.
— Sadhguru, Life and Death in One Breath
Faith in God is confident hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!