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Words are divine force.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love fuels the existence of a divine being
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The creative force is God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.
— Gurcharan Das
Its a sign of weakness to lament about things which you entirely have no control over.
— Auliq Ice
I am a plain person. I have merely spoken out my mind. I do not say you should believe what I have said because it alone is certain. Accept such ideas as can be accepted, with the help of your reason, after a sound inquiry. Reject the rest.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
I will not subject you to a restraint, in the manner of scriptures and ancient works, by stating that you should trust what I say, that my words are apocalyptic; and that if you do not believe me, you will become atheists and go to hell. If what I say is not agreeable to your instinct, knowledge, experience and inquiry, reject it.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Lord Almighty your grace is all I need.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Believe in yourself, take a bet on yourself. If you don't, then who will?
— Anuranjita Kumar, Can I have it all?
Feelings will get you out of control, but faith doesn't.
— Auliq Ice
Magic is a trick, and the trick is to believe it's real.
— Osman Welela, Kingdom
You’re lonely,” they say,but it doesn’t scare me anymorefor it teaches me,and maybe that’s the biggest win from these years:I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,like I always thought I would.I don’t break mirrors anymore,like I always thought I would. I can finally stand myself,and I never thought I would.
— Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine
It is only light that can extinguish darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.
— Criss Jami, Healology
HANNAH: You had a vision.PRIOR: A vision. Thank you, Maria Ouspenskaya. I'm not so far gone I can be assuaged by pity and lies.HANNAH: I don't have pity. It's just not something I have.(Little pause)One hundred and seventy years ago, which is recent, an angel of God appeared to Joseph Smith in upstateNew York, not far from here. People have visions.PRIOR: But that's preposterous, that's...HANNAH: It's not polite to call other people's beliefs preposterous.He had great need of understanding. Our Prophet. His desire made prayer. His prayer made an angel. The angel was real. I believe that.PRIOR: I don't. And I'm sorry but it's repellent to me. So much of what you believe.HANNAH: What do I believe?PRIOR: I'm a homosexual. With AIDS. I can just imagine what you ...HANNAH: No you can't. Imagine. The things in my head.You don't make assumptions about me, mister; I won't make them about you.
— Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika
Just 'cause something isn't true is no reason to not believe in it...
— Hub Mcann, "Second Hand Lions"
Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken.
— Criss Jami, Healology
If in doubt,trust your instincts because either you are right or lack the bite to fix it right.
— Asim kayani
I am graciously and joyfully living through each day.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Drought-struck farmers pray for rain, in the express hope that the universe or owner thereof will hear the words and suspense the laws of meteorology for their benefit. Some, of course, actually believe just that, and for all anyone can prove they could be right.
— Terry Pratchett
I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.
— Criss Jami, Healology
He didn't believe in magic and demons. He believed in day and night, endurance and fury, cold mud and loneliness and the speed with which blood leaves the body
— Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times
Even in the broken state, my mind find waysto connect with you.
— Anjum Choudhary
Athena always lived between two worlds: what she felt was true and what she as been taught by her faith.
— Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello
You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission.
— Brad Meltzer, History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
Any belief that doesn't add any positive value to your present or future, absolutely doesn't belong in your mind.
For any kind of problem, we must first undoubtedly believe that we can absolutely solve it! Then, the solution will come; it is our determination and our utter belief on this matter that shall bring the solution!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
No amount of belief makes something a fact.
— James Randi
We do tend to believe things while we're hearing or reading them. Afterwards, it's another matter, when the book is closed and the voice stops speaking.
— Javier Marías, Los enamoramientos
I've always thought it nonsense to believe something true simply because it was written in a book long ago.
— Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings
Only absurdities need to be defended. Truth speaks for itself. 
— Stefan Emunds
Some of these stories, it is understood, are not to be passed on to my father, because they would upset him. It is well known that women can deal with this sort of thing better than men can. Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic. Men, for some mysterious reason, find life more difficult than women do. (My mother believes this, despite the female bodies, trapped, diseased, disappearing, or abandoned, that litter her stories.) Men must be allowed to play in the sandbox of their choice, as happily as they can, without disturbance; otherwise they get cranky and won't eat their dinners. There are all kinds of things that men are simply not equipped to understand, so why expect it of them? Not everyone shares this believe about men; nonetheless, it has its uses.
— Margaret Atwood
It could be that God has absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand and subtle, so powerful in a new way, that we can only feel blindly of its hem.
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Morality is always prejudicial.
— Stefan Emunds
Belief & Trust should be deep from mind & heart. Love is just emotional...without Belief & Trust, love is like an empty bottle. Only the outer layer will be present, the inside will be ALWAYS hollow..
— Shibin Thomas
Life leaves no one behind unless one's beliefs do.
He couldn’t believe how lucky he was to have found a girl like her. She may have been the perfect woman for him.
— Jason Medina, A Ghost In New Orleans
If we could visit Highsmith today, I would lead you down the silent corridors until we came to a striking seal on the floor, a blood-red H carved in stone. This hallowed seal represents the sacred Honor of every student who spends four years at Highsmith. The stone seal is indelible, consecrated by the generations of alumnae who have passed by, understanding and believing. No outsider, no matter how cunning, can ever steal that belief away.
— James Klise
I hear talk of that slippery slope, and my heart catches for a beat. But there is the musky truth I'm standing in that I can't deny, and it tastes of so much holy. That old way, the narrow line, I see now that was a slippery, saccharine surface where my soul could gain no purchase. For the first time, my feet feel sure beneath me, and that sense is twining its way up from my ankles, racing toward my knees, my thighs, my secret places, my heart. It's in my blood now, and I can't deny it. I can't deny it. I open my eyes, because I could see even through my clutched-closed lids that the darkness is light, that the blindness has given way to searing vision. I can't deny it.
— Beth Morey, Night Cycles: Poetry for a Dark Night of the Soul
That's how you avoid becoming a moth," he says. "Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.
— Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.
— Richard Bachman, Thinner
In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believing what they wished to believe.
— Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander
Spirituality is a universal currency. It is part of every religion, every faith, and every person. Everybody has a belief system.
— Emma Mildon, The Soul Searcher's Handbook: A Modern Girl's Guide to the New Age World
Your patterns of thought, existing bodies of knowledge, beliefs, predispositions, etc. are the 'stuff of your mental universe'. We are always subject to the power of our mental inertia. The waves in our mental oceans can never be magically stilled, and are therefore always impacting our new beliefs, even when we become scrutinizing adults. It is simply impossible to 'wipe the slate clean' and start over. These effects remain with us throughout our entire lives. Even the beliefs that we later discard are difficult to completely negate, and leave their own residual effects.
— Daniel Ionson, And the Truth Shall Make You Flee: Confronting the Truth-Seekers' Fears and Failures
...definitely believe that, there's got to be a spark to a place...to make it feel like a home...
— Isabella koldras, poem My Home.
Take care,' said Delaura. 'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.''Saint Thomas said it, and I will be guided by him,' said the Abbess: '"One must not believe demons even when they speak the truth.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
But his doubts were again coming back to him; when you needed a miracle to gain belief, it means that you are incapable of believing. There is no need for the Almighty to prove His existence.
— Émile Zola, Lourdes
We must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can never act with the certainty that God is on our side; and yet at times we must act nonetheless, as if we are certain, protected from error only by providence.
— Barack Obama
Your faith in "what will be" will not only empower you to let go "what was", but it will also encourage you to accept "what is" existing now! Have faith in God; His plans are to prosper you, not to harm you!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Real life issues are not mathematical equations. We’re not calculators crunching numbers. We’re humans sorting through complex, multi-layered issues, and we’re doing so while enduring the (sometimes profound) personal effects of our conclusions. While we want to be reasonable, we are inexorably pulled in the direction of our oldest mental habits and by our deepest life-impacting needs. We’re repelled by those ideas which can jeopardize our comfort, safety, and happiness. We can try to be fair, but all the while we are fighting against our needs and fears. There are things we don’t want to be true (or false). Our lives are built on certain beliefs which, if disproved, could wreck us. These are the truths that we 'can’t handle'.
— Daniel Ionson, And the Truth Shall Make You Flee: Confronting the Truth-Seekers' Fears and Failures
If we want to use a physical analogy, a more accurate one would show that many of our beliefs are like boulders pushed off from the top of a mountain. The boulder tips, and the thousands of contours of the mountainside, along with any trees (or lack thereof), its hardness, etc., react to the shape, size, and contours of the boulder itself. Rainfalls alter how much cushion the earth gives when the boulder slams into it and how much trees and shrubs will bend before breaking. All of these variables mix and, based on its bounces and rotations, the boulder lands in a very specific spot at the bottom. In many ways, this is how we form many of our beliefs—by countless, unique mental influences pushing us this way and that.
— Daniel Ionson, And the Truth Shall Make You Flee: Confronting the Truth-Seekers' Fears and Failures
The Existential-Epistemic Spiral—MeaningOur central beliefs shape and guide us, but the staggering synergistic power of our dynamics working together creates an existential centripetal force at the core of our being—meaning. Nothing affects us like meaning. Meaning is everything, the cumulative effect of all dynamics spinning inside of us. It generates and sustains our identity, creates stability and purpose. It drives our choices, shapes our feelings, and guides our morality.
— Daniel Ionson, And the Truth Shall Make You Flee: Confronting the Truth-Seekers' Fears and Failures
We all live within our belief solar systems; it’s how we make it through each day. What feels “real” and “true” is based on it. Internal consistency and function means that a belief solar system is simply livable, but it says nothing about its veracity.
— Daniel Ionson, And the Truth Shall Make You Flee: Confronting the Truth-Seekers' Fears and Failures
The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the poor.The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the needy in distress.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.
— Criss Jami, Healology
But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it?
— Umberto Eco
I hope that I get to see you love what you are. To know yourself as gift and worth and truth. That you see what a huge thing it is to have the courage to break your own heart. That you have chosen wholeness — even when it has shattered you. And that you will one day see that you can be whole and broken in the exact same spaces, that they nestle side by side — and that this is the way of things. Not your punishment for wrongdoing, or for not trying hard enough — but just the way of things. That you can stand and look at yourself in a mirror and see your goodness right there, see the worth of what you bring on the surface of your skin, just like I do. That you trust there is brilliance to come. That you own what is yours to own, both the bad and the good. That you do not insist on owning it all. It was never all yours to hold
— Jeanette LeBlanc
... an impression of inescapable noise or acute disorder, a rush of adrenalin, sensations of alarm, a sense of unbalance or chaos, residual feeling of nausea and anxiety. These are the forms of bodily distress that occur when one's ingrained, taken-for-granted sense of how certain things are - and thus presumably will be and in some sense should be - is suddenly or insistently confronted by something very much at odds with it.
— Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won’t make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
One definition occurred to both of them—that he had come out into the light of that lucid and radiant ignorance in which all beliefs had begun. The sky above them was full of mythology. Heaven seemed deep enough to hold all the gods.
— G.K. Chesterton, Manalive
Whatever belief that doesn't make you happier, stronger, healthier or wiser, surely doesn't deserve to be sheltered in your mind.
I believe in the importance of learning from what has been discovered before. And in how precious health is, and how hard I must work to preserve it in all my Clanmates. The fact that the world of signs, omens, and dreams that have hidden meanings is closed to me doesn’t feel like something is missing, Mistystar. I respect what you believe. You must respect what matters to me.
— Erin Hunter, Mistystar's Omen
Love never lies and it never tries, it's unafraid and heaven made.Keep the faith, surrender the time, just like a grape we need to ripen on the vine.Be like a fairy, constantly glow, leave a trail of love wherever you go.Do not try to make sense of this world. Do try to know yourself and to grow yourself while in it.The more you are, the more you have.Rather than make the best of a situation, make the best situation. Create, don't negate.Keep the dream alive and the heart open.Be your most glorious self, and even better, be indifferent to what anyone may think of it.Don't fear the dark, it's helping you find the light. We wouldn't know morning, if we didn't see night.Never give to say you've given, never shy away from a good cry, never stop a laugh from happening, and always wonder, why?Don't get mad, get motivated!
— Allyson Giles
(I should mention I attended a Christian elementary school where “my dad’s hermeneutic can beat up your dad’s hermeneutic” served as legit schoolyard banter.)
— Rachel Held Evans
What are we without belief, without purpose?
— Rachelle Dekker, The Choosing
Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.
— Stephen King, Duma Key
Faith is a state of openness or trust.To have faith is like when you trust yourself to the water. You don’t grab hold of the water when you swim, because if you do you will become stiff and tight in the water, and sink. You have to relax, and the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging, and holding on.In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
— Alan W. Watts
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
— Holy Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:11
Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone's beliefs as seriously as they do.
— Jasper Sole
Many people are living unhappily because they keep trying to experience happiness without evicting the negative thoughts and beliefs that are vandalizing their minds.
Everlasting light, everlasting glory.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
One would think after all the disappointment life offers us unfortunate few we would give up the trifles connected with hope, feeling, belief and optimism in our fellow souls.
— Daleen Van Tonder
Happiness is nothing but a state of mind which only your thoughts and beliefs could place you in.
We need to think about faith, religion, and spirituality in a new way. When I grew up I was taught that religion was about what we believed. What made my denomination different (and correct, of course) was our sound doctrine. We were right. This made religion too much about being right, about us and them. Too much attention then goes into defending our beliefs.I am now convinced that “belief,” in the way we usually use the word, is actually the enemy of faith, religion, and spirituality. Let me say that again: belief is the enemy of faith. When we dwell on beliefs we ask all the wrong questions. My faith is much more about what I love than about what I think.When the conversation shifts away from our beliefs to what we hold most dear, to what moves us at the depths of our being and what calls us, wondrous new possibilities emerge. We share and explore our deepest experiences. We discover what we have in common. Our attention naturally turns to how we want to live our lives and to the commitments we are willing to make. Our concern at the personal level becomes one of developing our awareness, of spiritual disciplines, of growth. At the interpersonal level, our attention turns to loving relationships. Finally, our attention turns to issues of compassion, justice, and interdependence. Faith becomes a relationship. Faith is about being faithful to what we hold sacred.
— Peter Morales
Leaders think it’s possible. They inspire followers to believe in the same good news and it becomes a blessing to them. Leadership is all about inspiring people to believe in what becomes profitable to them!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
God of great miracles.God of great mercies.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Environment provides us with many cultures. From each we identify our beliefs that give us our values. From our values we pick up our choices and our choices bring out our character. Our characters make us to lead!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
It is the finding of neuroscience, in fact, that belief is at least in part a matter of emotion. Whatever we believe to be true lights up areas of our brain responsible for self-identification and the processing of feelings and sentiments. If we believe something, then, the object of our belief becomes an emotionally potent aspect of our own self-image. There is some common sense to this, too: the most passionate of believers and the most strident of New Atheists are palpably, visibly fired up and ready to defend their positions.
— Steve Volk, Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't
We all have that divine moment, when our lives are transformed by the knowledge of the truth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Your purpose is God’s success. You can’t pay for what God want to be done. It’s God’s business; it’s his farmland, so when he said he’ll provide the rain, don’t doubt it!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
God will judge us by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
— Abraham Verghese
She is of the race of Jeanne d’Arc, this Northern girl, in her voice, her bearing, her beliefs. That kind if not to be possessed by one man; she belongs to a cause, to the people.
— Florence Converse, Diana Victrix
It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that.
— John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
The one thing that I want every single child to have experienced at some point in their life, as part of their education, is to have some idea they hold to be true, and at the very basis of their being, proved to be wrong.Because that opens your mind to the realization that the world is different than you thought it would be, and you have to begin to open your mind to the possibilities of existence.And opening your mind frees you, it doesn't constrain you. It makes the world more wonderful, more exciting, and more worth living in.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
Did Cinderella wonder whether her prince would have cared for her had he first seen her in her everyday clothes? Did she believe the ladies of the palace were truly her friends or did she suspect they were just friendly because she was the princess and wore beautiful gowns?Did she fear that life could again change? Everything could disappear as it had done when the clock struck twelve?Did Cinderella wonder whether her good fortune was real or the trick of a magic wand?It’s a sad thing to lose belief.
— Gita V. Reddy, Cinderella's Escape
My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...
— Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure
Pray all you like, ask anything you want, but don’t forget that he never promised he’d say yes. He never guaranteed us anything. Not anything at all. Except one thing. Just one thing . . . . That he cares . . . That is all. Nothing else.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Love Letters
We're experiencing the genesis of a community where it does not matter where your roots lie, but what you believe in. We will continue to create an inclusive and sustainable spirit, spreading the word from coast to mountaintop.
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
This tendency to defend a belief structure is true in all cases, even the rational. Never underestimate our ability to convince ourselves of what we wish to be true, especially if we have invested time and money in our beliefs.
— Gudjon Bergmann, More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality
It is a world that is made of love. Did you think there is only the kind of love your sister has for her husband? Did you think there must be here, a man with whiskers, and over here, a lady in a gown? Haven't I said, there are no whiskers and gowns where spirits are? And what will your sister do if her husband should die, and she should take another? Who will she fly to then, when she has crossed the spheres? For she will fly to someone, we will all fly to someone, we will all return to that piece of shining matter from which our souls were torn with another, two halves of the same.
— Sarah Waters, Affinity
Because you deserve dignity, beyond anything else in this world. You deserve a God, and a faith, and a belief that finds you dignified at the core.
— Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
God created man, Society created Class!
— Jacob Addai
When I was seven I believed in God so I told Him I was sorry about kicking my sister and to “please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.
— Emma Rose Kraus, A Blue One
A dream is only impossible if you allow your thoughts and beliefs to convince you to believe so
As a leader, you have to disbelieve what you can’t do. It’s by so doing that you can believe in what you can do. It’s only by disbelieving that it can fly that the horse keeps galloping!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
I would rather know than believe.
— M.  Chapman
You owe it to your destiny to never allow your thoughts and beliefs to go against your positive desires.
If whatever belief you are holding on to isn't driving you forward in life, then it's time to let it go and let the opposite take charge.
It's much easier to tame a wild tiger with your bare hands than to convince someone who believes in something, no matter wrong or right.
— Oliver Blade, Take Your Share: Seven practical exercises to unlock your financial potential
Where kairos is an event word—something that has a beginning and ending—repentance (metanoia) is a process word, as is believe (pistis). The Circle is a process, a way of living that does not have a specific beginning and ending. One does not become a disciple of Jesus and stand still; discipleship is a lifestyle of learning. And this learning begins with a change of heart.
— Mike Breen
Whatever thought or belief that cannot produce happiness or growth in your life, doesn't belong in your mind.
To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.
— Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
The things you struggle with today are the things you choose to struggle with.Because you believe that what you want to accomplish, is worth struggling for.
— pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You: Just the Words
I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.
— Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are.
— George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.
— Terry Goodkind, The Third Kingdom
When it came to talking with God, I wanted to believe he was like those stars. If I looked, he’d be there. I’d lost a lot of things in the years that led up to this point - shoes and keys and books and boyfriends - but I never lost that hope
— Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
Many people are born into their religion. For them it is mostly a matter of legacy and convenience. Their belief is based on faith, not just in the teachings of the religion but also in the acceptance of that religion from their family and culture. For the person who converts, it is a matter of fierce conviction and defiance. Our belief is based on a combination of faith and logic because we need a powerful reason to abandon the traditions of our families and community to embrace beliefs foreign to both. Conversion is a risky business because it can result in losing family, friends and community support.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
There are two reasons why we don't trust people, First, we don't know them. Second, we know them.
— Anonymous
Like the kite that caught up to the sky,painted with clouds, I lost track of it, but it was connected by string, something I was holding, something I could always bring back.
— Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum
There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.
— Greg Egan
In order to live up to your full potential on earth, you must always challenge and replace any thought or belief that goes against your happiness and success.
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary, things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.
— Aldous Huxley
Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.
— Criss Jami, Healology
You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.
— Howard Jacobson
Lifeboats are decked out on the sides of a ship waiting for when disaster strikes, faith on the other hand is a part of you for whenever.
— Unarine Ramaru
Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.
— Aldous Huxley
You are an atheist if you do not believe in yourself.
— Swaraj Priyadarshi
Negative thoughts and beliefs are poisons to one's true destiny on earth.
Your mind is too precious to bear negative thoughts and beliefs in it.
You must refuse to entertain or shelter in your mind, any thought or belief that goes against your happiness and success in life.
We all have purpose. We are all guardians. We are the angels and we are the demons. We are all gods if we choose to be. Believe.
— Dimitri Zaik, Ink Bleeder
Problems created by ignorance are always solved by information. The best information is an inspiration that brings an end to the belief “it’s impossible”!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Loving is half of believing.
— Victor Hugo
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
She waited, thinking you were different from those who used and betrayed her. She believed you would find her, come charging to her rescue. That belief was as misplaced as the monsters we faced were deadly. The day came she finally lost her faith in you, and I was there as I’ve always been there when she needed me.
— Karen Marie Moning, Burned
Never keep your brain so full that people’s opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be “born again” before it is believed.
— Shannon L. Alder
The denial of Christ has less to do with facts and more to do with the bent of what a person is prejudiced to conclude.
— Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
The Inquisitor waited for silence. "Do you believe in anything?""Not if I can help it. Belief alone is nothing to be proud of, Inquisitor. Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.
— Joe Abercrombie, Red Country
Most people desperately desire to believe that they are a part of a great mystery, that Creation is a work of grace and glory, not merely the result of random forces colliding. Yet each time that they are given but one reason to doubt, a worm in the apple of the heart makes them turn away from a thousand proofs of the miraculous, whereupon they have a drunkard's thirst for cynicism, and they feed upon despair as a starving man upon a loaf of bread.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
Nothingness...there in this placewhere nothingness takesbut for the glimmera steadfast shimmerall would be consumed...
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Believe in yourself and everything will change
— Sarah alhussinan
Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!
— Anne Rice
I assume you are the sort of person who would go backstage after the opera in hopes of hearing the prima donna crying on the telephone, or walking in on the baritone fellating the basso buffo. I respect that-I was always the same way myself-though I suspect you are not very happy. Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions. I remember, even before this was visited upon me, how I envied those who eagerly did what they were told: those who married without complaint at father's behest; those who looked up rather than sideways in church; those, in short, who honestly believed in God, good kings, and righteous wars.
— Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead
Whether or not you believe in God, He always believes in You!
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.
— Lynn Austin, Gods and Kings
Faith is the resplendent key that liberates me from the impregnable confines meticulously constructed from the raw material of my disbelief.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You owe it to your destiny to never allow your mind to become a playground for negative thoughts and beliefs.
They're all the same-- the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor-- they all share a fundamental belief in the malleability of truth
— Louise Erdrich
Where once there was a void,Now at least there are Seeds of splendour,Becalmed belief for another time.
— Scott Hastie
Whenever you get such repulsive and destructive thoughts, always remember that there are more people in this world who love you unconditionally than the years of life you have lived.
— Nirja
We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science.
— Nicholas Nassim Taleb
You have to take this with you too,” she said, opening a box and holding up a silver necklace with the Syriac cross (a crucifix with a budding flower shape on each tip) dangling from it. “My mother gave it to me mother, who passed it to me. Now is the right time to give it to you. Not just because you’re leaving and will need something that always connects you to your roots, but also because tonight we remember her.
— Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's already there.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.
— Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
You are a winner
—  dare to claim it. You reserve your joy if you reverse your belief. You deserve to celebrate... It will happen when you dare to believe in God!
Everyone is watching you. If you don’t believe it, just pretend to fail and you’ll see many mockers. For this reason, work hard as if you are doing everyone’s business!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
It is a belief of the mediocre that extreme effort kills.
— Moffat Machingura, Life Capsules
I discuss my beliefs less because I bed my atheist, who cannot believe in much more sacred than our kisses.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever.
— Dannye Williamsen
I spent most of my life believing lwas crazy because all the crazy things I experienced in childhood were treated as nonexistent or normal. This belief colored every decision made, from something so basic as what to wear today, to the more esoteric boundaries of whether I should kill myself. I understood very well that killing myself under the wrong circumstances would establish my insanity forever. So I analyzed every word, every gesture, before committing myself. (Which probably accounts for why I am alive today.)
— Sarah E. Olson, Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder
That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?
— George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
Our friendship is made of bendy straws, long midnight letters,my so-called life marathons, sleepless sleepovers, diner milk shakes, apron strings, a belief in beauty,sucking helium, and the most trust I’ve ever felt for anyone, including myself.
— David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility
Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence. We all suffer severely enough from the maintenance and support of false beliefs and the fatally wrong actions which they lead to, and the evil born when one such belief is entertained is great and wide.
— William Kingdon Clifford
Sometimes you hear people saying that there is a secret to get to where you wanna be, but at a certain point, you discover that you are the secret of your success.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
If what we presently believe to be true is not producing a Kingdom result, we may need to reconsider what we believe to be true.
— Blake L. Higginbotham, Apostles, Elders & Other Ministries
Believe and acknowledge that God is the source of your big dreams, but not you!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
People always say that in England we lead shallow lives. Our lives must be shallow because we live in a country where nobody believes in anything any more. My whole life, I've been told: 'Western civilization? An old bitch gone in the teeth,' And so people say, go to Israel. Because in Israel at least people are fighting. In Israel, they're fighting for something they believe in.
— David Hare
Listen to your own intuit. Have stronger wisdom to judge your own belief and things that you desire to do NOT what others want you to do.
— Ashish Patel
To believe something and not live is like making fun of your abilities. You cannot be really trusted if you can dream and doubt its possibility.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Men like you preach change, but I wonder. Is this a battle we can really fight?”“You’re fighting it already, Goodman Mennis. You’re just losing horribly.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire
Belief... was its own magic-so long as it was carefully placed, often examined, like a bridge kept in careful repair.
— C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Ice
What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
I may not believe in God, but I still fear him.
— Justin Go, The Steady Running of the Hour
Faith is the only belief which remains alive between heaven and hell.
— Munia Khan
For a lot of people, God lives in their Bibles and they open it when they feel He has something to say.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
People that say “I can’t” should try saying “I choose not to.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
God forgive me for what I’ve done. God forgive me for what I will do. And God forgive me for what I can’t do because my religion won’t let me
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
We live in a thought-suggestive Universe. The sky’s the limit. Believe and you’ll receive.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
Because he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Yes, stop your beliefs for a few moments now and then and Be-Life.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
We are all shining stars part of this UNIVERSE, which orbits the one SUN, but in different directions.
— Abed Rahmani
Just because you believe in something, you cannot expect others to respect for your belief! They may even make fun of it! All you have to do is to be peaceful at any time, with everyone! Something holy for you may be just a rubbish for others! All you have to do is to be peaceful at any time, with everyone!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Any connection with nature and most connections with technology are lost. There's a belief that nature is irrelevant and that anything can be solved using the current methods--now technology
—  previously magic or praying.
If you want to be a successful writer you have to put your butt in the chair and your fingers on the keyboard and put words on the page. Even shitty words are better than no words. You can go back and fix them later.
— Liliana Hart, The Naked Truth About Self-Publishing
Never let your mind imprison your achievements by imposing disbelief on you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Whether you lay cold in the ground or warm in an urn the turmoils of life aren't a concern. For some this may be the perfect rhyme except for those you leave behind...
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Sometimes it is worth taking a risk, no matter what the consequences.
— Emily Arden, The Gemini Effect: Deception: Book Three
If I say ‘there is no God’, I disrespect your belief; how when you say ‘there is a God’ you do not disrespect mine?
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.
— William Hope Hodgson
I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.
— Stefan Molyneux
Try again
—  you have millions of alternatives. Fill yourself with the bullets of hope and you will kill failure with one shot.
Be consistent with what you believe and do. Persist and insist that you will do it till it's done and done well.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Don't you ever get tired of believing, Madame? Don't you ever want proof?
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Believe in yourself and relief yourself of the undue anxiety of feelings of incompetency. Leave worry aside and live with the hope that your dominion is not determined by people’s negative opinions!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Believe this, “the higher you go, the further you see” and also “the further you see the clearer you hear; “the clearer you hear, the wiser you become”!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Three things will last forever — faith, hope, and love — and the greatest of these is love.
— Anonymous Holy Bible 1 Corinthians 13 13
Avoid all doubtful ideas and put your mind into the realms of true belief.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
How strongly do you believe in what you want to do? How prepared are you live and die for it? You are not likely to succeed when you always doubt your capacity to reach higher heights in your pursuits.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear. Not to mention sing.She hum a little more. Something come to me, she say. Something I made up. Something you help scratch out my head.
— Alice Walker
Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.
— Ellis Peters
As the caterpillar undergoes transformation and emerges as a butterfly; likewise, character undergoes transformation through experiences, aspirations and beliefs. How will you emerge?
— Lorna Jackie Wilson
Belief and hope, it seemed were not the same thing,....
— Eileen Wilks, All I Want for Christmas
God is like an umbrella of illusion and belief, In rainy days we use him, in sunny days we forget him.
— Debasish Mridha
Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you'll find something that is.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Anything you don’t want to deal with can always be written off as being “in the past” and ignored, but in doing so, you sweep it under a rug where it doesn't go away with time – it becomes time itself, and takes on the illusion of life as we think we know it.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
The ignorance of the world often makes people believe that life should be black and white – that you must choose sides – and so the world of colourful gradients goes unadmired.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
We do not need definite beliefs because their objects are necessarily true. We need them because they enable us to stand on steady spots from which the truth may be glimpsed. And not simply glimpsed—because certainly revelation is available outside of dogma; indeed all dogma, if it’s alive at all, is the result of revelation at one time or another—but gathered in. Definite beliefs are what make the radical mystery—those moments when we suddenly know there is a God, about whom we “know” absolutely nothing—accessible to us and our ordinary, unmysterious lives. And more crucially: definite beliefs enable us to withstand the storms of suffering that come into every life, and that tend to destroy any spiritual disposition that does not have deep roots.
— Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
I know that people who don't believe in God might scoff at the idea that the creator of the universe has the time or inclination to try incessantly (and with not much long-term success) to change my heart. I get it. I just have no other explanation.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
Some only follow the holy man while others only follow the warlord. But the truth is, both sides are within all of us, and if people could only see that, they wouldn't have to wear masks, or pretend to be holy like a holy man, or pretend that nothing can hurt them like a warlord. They could just be themselves, unjudged.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
No matter what, don't live a life where you're too scared to die for what you believe in. Always go at it with everything you've got, even if it doesn't seem to be enough.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
We are united by something greater and more valuable than our beliefs alone: the freedom to have those beliefs, and believe what we want without persecution - we must protect that at all costs.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
You have to make sacrifices for the things you believe in. If you don’t, what’s the point in believing in anything?
— Chelsea Pitcher, The Last Changeling