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When you believe someone at work for anything & everything... remember someone else is also trusting & following you. If you find fault on others; know that it's not theirs, but yours... What you do others follow.
— Stephen Manoharan
We can pull down a nation if we can make them believe that education is not important. If they believe that it is important and begin to act on their belief, then there is nothing anyone can do stop them.
— Paul Bamikole
As I believe—I am, I can, I know.
— Lorii Myers
Our love is the reason romance was created.
— Faraaz Kazi, Truly, Madly, Deeply
Our belief ultimately determines our faith.
— Kenneth Newry
The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.
— Leonard Woolf
They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
It's not about people believing the story. It's about you knowing and holding it to be true.
— Joan Ambu
Truth is a continuous examination, and Fact... always supersedes belief.
— Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan, African Origins of the Major "Western Religions"
Even with the very best of intentions, even with the ambition of making the world a better place, when we cast judgment upon people whose lifestyles, beliefs, or predilections we dislike, we add to the emotional filth of hostility and make the world feel a little less safe for the folks we’re genuinely trying to help.
— Agnostic Zetetic
Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a un texto implicito: Seleccion
Every solider believes in war till the time he actually fights it.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
I don’t think He bargains.”“Oh yes He does. I may not be religious but I know my Bible. My mother saw to that. He bargains all right. But He’s supposed to he just. If He wants belief He’d better provide some evidence.’“That He exists?”“That He cares.
— P.D. James, The Children of Men
Awakening is the ultimate of religion. Religion is, not really, in believing something outside of your being. It is not in believing or following some authoritative figure, the church, temple, organization or any ideological system of belief. Religion is trusting in what is eternal within you.
— Banani Ray, Awakening Inner Guru
Believe in yourself. Determine to pursue your goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You don't need proof. You just need an inclination
— Mary Roach, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Believe in God.Believe in Jesus Christ.Believe in the Scriptures.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is not enough just to believe in Christ. We have to believe that He believes in us so we can believe in ourselves. That’s a sentence that deserves a re-read.
— Toni Sorenson
At any moment we can demonstrate our faith by taking action that shows our belief in God's promises!
— Alisa Hope Wagner
Understand that by giving something a name, you own it. I find that by naming it, you give yourself a sense of purpose. Like wanting to become a doctor or lawyer or writer for instance, don’t hide in the shadows and wait for it to happen, because the chances of it spontaneously happening are next to none, trust me. You actually have to put yourself out there and commit to it by giving it a name. And you achieve this by simply saying, I WILL become a ‘this’ or ‘that’ or whatever it is that you want. Because you see, if you own it, nothing anyone can say or do will be able to take it away from you; because YOU gave it a name and thus, it belongs to you.
— Charles Mackriel
Hope is a belief in a better tomorrow.,
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Know that God loves you very, very much. And remind others that they are loved too. If they don’t want to hear that God loves them, then tell them you love them. It will be just as important! Beliefs vary, but love always works!
— Sean Patrick Brennan, Heaven, Hell, and the Planet in Between: Book 1: The Uniter
You are the only one who can dream your dreams.
— Toni Sorenson
They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.
— Geoffrey Wood
It seems in this day and age, people are banking on a Faith that has long since checked out.
— Solange nicole
She didn't like it when religious folks looked down on her for being an atheist; but to be honest, I didn't see how this was any different from the way she looked down on people for being Christians.
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person's face that anything changes
— Rawi Hage, Carnival
All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell.
— Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
believe me...Nothing is bad, just proove it as right
— Alpesh Vasan
They say truth will set you free, it all depends whose truth we are talking about... yours or mine.
— Maria Nieves
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.
— Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
He will never let her go. Never. she belongs to him..Forever.
— Farzana Zahid, The Prince and The Fairy
We choose and make our heroes from what we have read, heard and believed in.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
She is not an ordinary girl. She is my fairy who will change my life and make it beautiful with her smiles.
— Farzana Zahid, The Prince and The Fairy
People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not anything you could truly feel.
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
Look. I know what I believe. It's in my soul. But I constantly tell our people: you should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don't know everything. And since we don't know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.
— Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story
You stand a better chance of bringing pretend to life through the power of belief than you stand any chance of erasing what's real by refusing to believe.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.
— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
... but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370)
— Alex London, Proxy
My beliefs are the center of my being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hopelessness is advance failure in a disguised envelope. People are crippled to have bed-ridden dreams just because they don't believe they can take progressive steps with those dreams.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Billions of dreams die off every year. I believe yours will not be part of that proportion if only you are ready to shape them!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Love, its power and authority, always gets there first, comes to believe first, and always waits for the others, especially the leaders, to catch up! This is the reality of what happened among the disciples and the community of the Beloved Disciple, John, and those closest to Jesus, called His friends. They mature and develop differently from other disciples, and the community of the Church has to struggle with the fact that the last one anyone thought would be the leader was the one who betrayed Him and contributed to the dissolution of the disciples when Jesus was arrested and crucified.
— Megan McKenna, And Morning Came: Scriptures of the Resurrection
Yes, Rose. Love is a wonderful feeling!
— Farzana Zahid, The Prince and The Fairy
In my client who had confessed her “alien abduction” experience, an alter had been instructed that if she began to remember the ritual abuse she was to remember the alien abduction, so that nobody would believe her account of the ritual abuse. This program did not work with us, but you can imagine the larger consequences of such a ruse.p55
— Alison Miller, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
Why bring him in my life at all when he never was meant to stay?
— Farzana Zahid, The Prince and The Fairy
A fool believes that math adds up, but also believes that they can master luck.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
So what if he is not part of my present but he is in my future, I know. And everyday I'm going a step closer to my future, to him.
— Farzana Zahid, The Prince and The Fairy
The difference between people lies within their beliefs.
— Mduduzi Risimati Mbiza
Of course. A new consciousness - I that that is the word,' said the old man after he had thought a moment. 'That is what I hope it is. You and your African and Colombian, you are speaking the same language now, you know the same ideas. You are conscious that life on earth is flux. Men are better educated. They are more disciplined than in the past - their schedules are harder, their lives move faster, efficiency digs into them. Men are more sophisticated -every day they have more alternatives to choose among than they can possibly exhaust. Through psychiatry they know their strengths and weaknesses. They know the risks of every choice. This is what I mean by consciousness. Men know so much about everything they do. It was much simpler when they didn't know, when they simply acted out of instinct, believed from instinct, loved from instinct, brought up children by their instincts. Perhaps people were even happier. But now we are more conscious. We have got to live with our greater knowledge. We have got to live with our greater freedom.
— Michael Novak, The Tiber Was Silver
Rose, we are here today. Tomorrow we don’t know where life will take us to. So, as long as we have today in our hands, let’s not slip it from our hands. Let’s live it!
— Farzana Zahid, The Prince and The Fairy
Belief and faith are the spiritual soul of every man.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
I took a breath and let it go and suddenly the air was crisper and my lungs lighter and suddenly there was him saying my name in different ways and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror, seeing someone I don’t know quite yet but I can’t wait to, and that is the start of everything.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Love is beyond space and time. It reaches out to the heart of the person that you are missing. Love binds two souls and not two bodies.
— Farzana Zahid, The Prince and The Fairy
For all his secrecy and fear of being seen, he was touched that we had observed him so closely, and with such love. He loved that we knew him. This is one reason people need to believe in God -- because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.
— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
Once you tell a man he's pretty, there's no taking it back. They think they're pretty all the time, and I suppose, in a way, they are. It's got to do with believing it.
— Sandra Cisneros
Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way.
— James Clavell, Tai-Pan
A belief is an uneducated guess.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
If you place belief on a pedestal, it will become your prison.
— Ken Dickson
She believes in love, in destiny and she knows ...she feels her prince in her destiny. She just has to wait for the right time.....
— Farzana Zahid, The Prince and The Fairy
When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question.
— Brunonia Barry, The Lace Reader
As a rule,I believe people shouldn't follow rules;rules should follow people.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Your limitations are largely programming instilled by others that you choose to believe.
— Gary   Hopkins
Religion is a belief or a curriculum. It can't hurt people or start wars. People hurt people, and people start wars. The real problem is the narcissist, for he can't control his anger and believes no one else is entitled to their own opinion or beliefs .
— Mamie Thornbrue
The prediction of false rape-related beliefs (rape myth acceptance [RMA]) was examined using the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Payne, Lonsway, & Fitzgerald, 1999) among a nonclinical sample of 258 male and female college students. Predictor variables included measures of attitudes toward women, gender role identity (GRI), sexual trauma history, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity. Using linear regression and testing interaction effects, negative attitudes toward women significantly predicted greater RMA for individuals without a sexual trauma history.However, neither attitudes toward women nor GRI were significant predictors of RMA for individuals with a sexual trauma history."Rape Myth Acceptance, Sexual Trauma History, and Posttraumatic Stress DisorderShannon N. Baugher, PhD,Jon D. Elhai, PhD,James R. Monroe, PhD, Ruth Dakota, Matt J. Gray, PhD
— Shannon N. Baugher
What we believe and trust becomes the very ruler for our souls by the influence of powers which work either righteously or evilly
— S. E. Entsua-Mensah
God could easily at any moment prove he existed beyond doubt with some amazing show of power which would have everyone kneel to him in awe. That is not what he wants. Real belief can't be gained by a dazzling show and a loving relationship can't be won through force.
— Lewis N. Roe, From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand
you don't want to be hurt that's why you throw your fellow sheep away yes you will no longer be hurt but the sheep you throw away is now walking to dark forest where a hungry pack of wolves are waiting, where he will face death.
— darwin araman ergina
The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidence, let alone proof. To know something for certain there must be proof. To hold to a belief there must be evidence. Untilthen, the only actual reasonable position is agnosticism.
— Lewis N. Roe, From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand
Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist haschosen not to accept it. They have no proof or even evidence oftheir belief, but will stick by it. This takes blind faith.
— Lewis N. Roe, From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand
Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claimto know (or at least believe in) something. Once you claim to knowsomething, you can't call that a lack of belief in the opposite viewand then say it's the place that you started.
— Lewis N. Roe, From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand
Her Prince! He might not be the handsomest man on earth. Not even the richest one too but he would have the purest of the heart and soul and he will love her with the same purity throughout eternity. He would be her Prince.
— Farzana Zahid, The Prince and The Fairy
She might not be cinderella to lose her shoe to find her prince or Rapunzel for that matter who will lift him up to set her free only to be lost in him, or Snow-white to be kissed and awakened by a Prince or any other princesses but yet she knows, she believes her destiny has a Prince in store for her - Her man. She would be his Princess and he would be her prince.
— Farzana Zahid, The Prince and The Fairy
Belief isn’t something you can be reassured about. It’s something that has to come from inside.
— Kaitlyn Oruska, Wishing Well
If you believe in something, then you shouldn’t give up on it.
— Harry Styles
As the leader of the international Human Genome Project, which had labored mightily over more than a decade to reveal this DNA sequence, I stood beside President Bill Clinton in the East Room of the White House... Clinton's speech began by comparing this human sequence map to the map that Meriwether Lewis had unfolded in front of President Thomas Jefferson in that very room nearly two hundred years earlier. Clinton said, "Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind." But the part of his speech that most attracted public attention jumped from the scientific perspective to the spiritual. "Today," he said, "we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, and the wonder of God's most divine and sacred gift."Was I, a rigorously trained scientist, taken aback at such a blatantly religious reference by the leader of the free world at a moment such as this? Was I tempted to scowl or look at the floor in embarrassment? No, not at all. In fact I had worked closely with the president's speechwriter in the frantic days just prior to this announcement, and had strongly endorsed the inclusion of this paragraph.When it came time for me to add a few words of my own, I echoed this sentiment: "It's a happy day for the world. It is humbling for me, and awe-inspiring, to realize that we have caught the first glimpse of our own instruction book, previously known only to God."What was going on here? Why would a president and a scientist, charged with announcing a milestone in biology and medicine, feel compelled to invoke a connection with God? Aren't the scientific and spiritual worldviews antithetical, or shouldn't they at least avoid appearing in the East Room together? What were the reasons for invoking God in these two speeches? Was this poetry? Hypocrisy? A cynical attempt to curry favor from believers, or to disarm those who might criticize this study of the human genome as reducing humankind to machinery? No. Not for me. Quite the contrary, for me the experience of sequencing the human genome, and uncovering this most remarkable of all texts, was both a stunning scientific achievement and an occasion of worship.
— Francis S. Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
There are those who don’t believe in God and yet do good. There are those who believe in God and kill for that belief; those who prepare for war because they claim they want peace, and so on. So one has to ask oneself what need there is to believe at all in anything, though this doesn’t deny the extraordinary mystery of life. But belief is a word, a thought, and this is not the thing, anymore than your name is actually you.Through experience you hope to touch the truth of your belief, to prove it to yourself, but this belief conditions your experience. It isn’t that the experience comes to prove the belief, but rather that the belief begets the experience. Your belief in God will give you the experience of what you call God. You will always experience what you believe and nothing else.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Krishnamurti Reader
Tell me, Anna, if man is capable of projecting his belief onto the cosmos, isn't it possible by the same token, that he can project his unbelief onto the cosmos?
— Michael D. O'Brien, Father Elijah: An Apocalypse
The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.
— Lauren F. Winner, Girl Meets God
I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him
— Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
Beliefs are not some special category of idea sitting at a higher station of truth than our ordinary, everyday mortal thoughts. Beliefs are not neccesarily "the truth" at all. (Remember, there was a time everyone believed the earth was flat)
— John Assaraf, The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life
I believe the difficulty that lies in growth, is the struggle of letting go of all you know to learn about the unknown. When in all actuality the unknown that you're learning about is yourself.
— Turcois Ominek
When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.
— Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
I do, 'Merama,' Deven piped up. 'I know exactly what she means. We need to send them love and see them coming home in our mind. If we wish and believe we can be together again.''Yas!' said Zahra strongly. 'Young one has knowing. You must that do!
— Marcha A. Fox, Beyond the Hidden Sky
The poor fool hadn't realized that if all mankind shares a folly or an illusion, and likes to share it even knowing what it is, then the illusion is much more valuable and fine a kind of thing than the ass who wants to upset it.
— John Dickson Carr
With drug use related harms, explanatory models are often presented as predictive tools, even though they ‘are [rarely if ever] predictive of consequent behavior’ or outcomes. Hence, we feel confident in asserting at outset, that prohibition based approaches in drug policy lack a sound basis in empirical research (despite sounding logical, i.e. remove drugs or the means of their production and less drugs will be available to users, thus minimising or eliminating harm), and are not animated by well-defined goals, goals that are not only consistent with the ethical and humanitarian aims of public health policy in general, but also with the fundamental principles of democracy) such as empowering or enabling those best placed to act, but by beliefs, assumptions, hypotheses and expectations.
— Daniel Waterman
To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen.
— François de La Rochefoucauld
But if God is the flowers and the treesAnd the hills and the sun and the moonlight,Then I believe in him,Then I believe in him all the time,And my whole life is an oration and a mass,And a communion with my eyes and through my ears.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
I just want to tell you: the only good thing in these days is that I still believe there’s something good behind all these things. I don’t know what that good thing is but the idea of it keeps me smile. Stories will be finished. Money has its way to come. Admission result will be announced, and if I get rejected, it does not mean I failed (though I’m pretty sure I will cry, either a lot or a little). There will be something good down the road. There is something meaningful hidden in everything plain but stressful around me right now: A lesson to learn, friends to treasure, stories to create, new places to discover and home to go back, chances to grab, opportunities to develop.
— Rio Lam, Get Lost. Be Found.
And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.
— Lauren F. Winner, Girl Meets God
Some days, I believe the Christian story even more than I believe in Australia. After all, I have never been to Australia, it is just a picture on a map. I don't know if I will ever go there, but I know that eventually I am going to Glory.Living the Christian life, however, is not about that Australia kind of believing. It is about a promise to believe even when you don't.
— Lauren F. Winner, Girl Meets God
Man created god upon his thoughts to externalize, to give form to his belief to give a reason for what they could do. The gods stole away the energies, let man believe he was ruled rather than that he rules.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
Jasmine had endured enough parochial schooling before middle school to have a residual attachment to the beautiful parts of believing, the certainty of knowing one is loved by something beyond comprehension, but also a niggling fear of those who believed too much in anything they could not touch. Believers were the sort to wave pictures of dead fetuses at her when she went to her gynecologist for a checkup.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
I raised my hand and asked if God was a spirit. And he said yes, He was. So I asked if it was right that a spirit was different from a person because it didn't have a body, wasn't material. And when he agreed, I asked how, if God was a spirit, He could be a man, if He didn't have a body or anything.
— Donna Leon, Quietly in Their Sleep
DESIGN & BUILDFaith Fashions Fate = Belief Builds Bridges
— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
MURRY: I believe in a lot of things. Santa Claus, magic, vampires, and even ghosts but I don't believe in luck. Good or bad.
— Hillary DePiano, New Year's Thieve
They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.
— Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
— John Lubbock, The Use Of Life
Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.
— Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
We are but a speck in the Universe Oh, but what a lucky speck to be...
— Kehinde Sonola
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.
— Thomas Clifford Allbutt
That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.
— Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm
I believed it had been long enough that Kresimir would never return. I believed it was time for change. I thought all of Rozalia’s concerns were foolish, and that Julene was living in the past. I believed we were alone.”“My people have never been alone,” Mihali said. “The others may have left. I did not.
— Brian  McClellan, Promise of Blood
Other people feel love when we listen without judging and accept them without demanding change. We all desperately require these basic needs. When we can do this for another, we are indeed that person’s angel.
— David W. Earle
Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that a certain thing is, is continuing to act as if it were not.
— William James, The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
The presence of pain should not be the reason for your low self-image. Boldness is the ability to stand tall even when the valley seems deep. Your pain will bring gain. Just believe and go to work!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
That’s life. It’s a series of knock-down, drag-out fights with yourself and others that will leave you lying on the ground bruised and bloody and drooling all over your shag carpeting. But all that doesn’t define you, your reaction to it does. Your environment doesn’t make you who you are, your choices — your beliefs, do.
— J.S.B. Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
— John Gunther
Belief in an infallible God does not make one infallible.
— John Corvino, What's Wrong With Homosexuality?
Of all the chemical transmitter substances sloshing around in your brain, it appears that dopamine may be the most directly related to the neural correlates of belief. Dopamine, in fact, is critical in association learning and the reward system of the brain that Skinner discovered through his process of operant conditioning, whereby any behavior that is reinforced tends to be repeated. A reinforcement is, by definition, something that is rewarding to the organism; that is to say, it makes the brain direct the body to repeat the behavior in order to get another positive reward.
— Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
Sometimes the greatest thing we can ask ourselves is “Why not me?” Anyone who has ever accomplished anything worth while has either verbalized or internalized this question. The beauty of the answer is that it completely depends on us. We are all innately capable of doing incredible and wonderful things. Having confidence in who we are starts with asking “Why not me?” So my friends…Why not you? ~Jason Versey
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
God resides most strongly and evidently where science has not yet progressed to go... And if this is true then it follows that God resides everywhere and in everything.
— Terryl L. Givens, The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
Embracing doubt is sometimes threatening, as we fear losing our faith if we explore our doubts. Following that thought, if one loses one’s faith, then as some religions dictate, that individual cannot enter heaven. Since heaven is the reward of an earthly existence, doubt becomes the enemy of this reward.
— David W. Earle
Rigid traditions capture soulsprisons of spiritual thoughtman’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.
— David W. Earle
Life without God is a long and fruitless search for enjoyment, meaning, and fulfillment.
— Jim George
What if we saw differences in cultures, in moral choices, and in belief as reasons to engage people instead of excuses to disengage and quickly exit?
— Holly Sprink, Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness
All your life should be seen and measured in the light of eternity.
— Jim George
You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”, and I will say "watch me".
— Charlotte Eriksson
Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.
— A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
Excellence is a habit acquired by continuous improvement on the little things you do with a firm belief that it's going to be better than before!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
The most tragic cause of social disharmony is when the speed with which people find mistakes of others outweighs their simple belief that they too are infallible!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.
— John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper
—  only the brave deserve the fair
I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second step and find what is it you believe in.
— Paul Torday, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
At home, my father ate all the most burnt pieces of toast. 'Yum!' he'd say, and 'Charcoal! Good for you!' and 'Burnt toast! My favorite!' and he'd eat it all up. When I was much older he confessed to me that he had not ever liked burnt toast, had only eaten it to prevent it from going to waste, and, for a fraction of a moment, my entire childhood felt like a lie, it was as if one of the pillars of belief that my world had been built upon had crumbled into dry sand.
— Neil Gaiman
I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I believe in it because it is impossible.
— Paul Torday, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Whether you dream big or dream small, chances are your dream will come true if you believe in it and really work hard on it.
— Nabil N. Jamal
Misogyny or misandry is not a status or a belief
—  it is just a sickness.
How will I make a people who do not understand the power of belief believe?
— Brom, Krampus: The Yule Lord
My dad had once told me a definition of faith and I had not forgotten it: 'Faith is to believe something you do not see. The result of that faith is to see what you believed'.
— Braam Malherbe, The Great Run: Conquering the Sleeping Dragon Within: Life's Lessons on the Run
Christianity is more than just a belief; it is a life of discipline, a firm determination to live a life of prayer and contemplation, a life of self-denial and Christlikeness.
— Ramon M. Torres
I believe in religion, I believe in religious expression, and I believe that all gods are one God. I do not lie when I pray in the words of another religion, because I believe. --Oisce
— Arin Murphy-Hiscock, Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft
In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
I may not believe that 'all things happen for a reason.' But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen.
— Shellen Lubin
Any belief which encourages you to use your own intellect, which motivates you to question everything and points out your own mind as the only road for your salvation is a good belief!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I have my own. I don't believe in religion, just as you mentioned. I think it does more harm than good. Believers see it as the one truth, non believers see it as trash and king's use it for power. Not one of them is right.
— Celia McMahon, Skye
Look at him, lying there. Why should he need me to give him strength--to watch over him, and always be worrying how he's feeling? Surely he'll find it himself. Isn't that what we believe, that we do always somehow find the strength? That the path will lead out of the forest; that the riddle will be solved; that the child never dies.
— Neil Bartlett, Skin Lane
If you quit pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you've come to success. It might have been hidden behind that next door you decided not to open, since the last fifty doors revealed little or nothing.
— Kamil Ali
When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without any cohabitation with a man, and that her betrothed husband, Joseph, said that an angel told him so, I have a right to believe them or not: such a circumstance required a much stronger evidence than their bare word for it: but we have not even this; for neither Joseph nor Mary wrote any such matter themselves. It is only reported by others that they said so. It is hearsay upon hearsay, and I do not chose to rest my belief upon such evidence.
— Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.
— Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers
It appears now to be universally admitted that, before the exile, the Israelites had no belief in rewards and punishments after death, nor in anything similar to the Christian heaven and hell; but our story proves that it would be an error to suppose that they did not believe in the continuance of individual existence after death by a ghostly simulacrum of life. Nay, I think it would be very hard to produce conclusive evidence that they disbelieved in immortality; for I am not aware that there is anything to show that they thought the existence of the souls of the dead in Sheol ever came to an end. But they do not seem to have conceived that the condition of the souls in Sheol was in any way affected by their conduct in life. If there was immortality, there was no state of retribution in their theology. Samuel expects Saul and his sons to come to him in Sheol.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study
Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd, untutored in history, sees no reason to regard the green mounds which indicate the site of a Roman camp, as aught but part and parcel of the primeval hill-side.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, Criticism on "The origin of species"
There has never been upon the earth a generation of free men and women. It is not yet time to write a creed. Wait until the chains are broken—until dungeons are not regarded as temples. Wait until solemnity is not mistaken for wisdom—until mental cowardice ceases to be known as reverence. Wait until the living are considered the equals of the dead—until the cradle takes precedence of the coffin. Wait until what we know can be spoken without regard to what others may believe. Wait until teachers take the place of preachers—until followers become investigators. Wait until the world is free before you write a 
— Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
The absence of theistic bel
— Joseph McCabe, A Rationalist Encyclopedia: a Book of Reference on Religion Philosophy Ethics and Science
Maybe you shake your head, but let me learn a lesson right now: plenty knowledge is in this world. Enough knowledge that you can pick and refuse. And if you want, you can refuse to know plenty things, don't care how true those things be. I know things you does not know, and things you will never know. And it is sake of that - sake of this knowledge - that people have looked on me and called me old fool or crazy. They treat me like I is retarded. Imagine that. I is the idiot because I know what they don't know.
— Kei Miller, The Last Warner Woman
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
— Peter Marshall
You cannot be escorted by the belief of inadequacy and get to the destination of excellence. Go along with "a can do spirit" because that is the only companion!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Though it is not a direct article of the christian system that this world that we inhabit is the whole of the habitable creation, yet it is so worked up therewith, from what is called the Mosaic account of the creation, the story of Eve and the apple, and the counterpart of that story, the death of the Son of God, that to believe otherwise, that is, to believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the christian system of faith at once little and ridiculous; and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air. The two beliefs can not be held together in the same mind; and he who thinks that be believes both, has thought but little of either....And, on the other hand, are we to suppose that every world in the boundless creation had an Eve, an apple, a serpent, and a redeemer? In this case, the person who is irreverently called the Son of God, and sometimes God himself, would have nothing else to do than to travel from world to world, in an endless succession of death, with scarcely a momentary interval of life.
— Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Michael doesn't flinch. 'You can't know,' he says quietly, 'how much you truly love something until it's gone.' 'That's not fair,' I say as I tremble. 'No one said it would be. He tests you, Benji, and he tests Calliel for a supremely simple reason. You are tested because if you aren't, how could you know what you believe in?' 
— T.J. Klune, Into This River I Drown
Sometimes, your future is already set, and there is nothing you can about it. there are somethings you just can't change, no matter how hard you work. Unfair, don't you think? It isn't an easy fact to accept, and I'm not telling you to, but that's just how life is. UnfairBut no matter how hard i think about it, i just believe everything in this world is beautiful. The sky, birds, bugs,frogs,flowers and even rocks. Nature is really awesome, because, if God created this world, could there really be anything dirty and ugly in it?
— Opoku Oduro Emmanuel
Hope was what kept the world going. Hope that one day you would find somebody you could love and trust, hope that you would never lose them; hope that your team won the cup this year; hope that you found that dream job; hope that you would find the money to pay the mortgage. But most of all, hope that one day - whatever you have told yourself over that years - you would find that life really does go on beyond the deathbed.
— Phil Ford, Skypoint
We cannot carve or forcibly preserveor cultivate belief. If it will grow, it growsas we do - mostly after we have fallen
— Jennifer Clarvoe, Invisible Tender
In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.
— Sara Sheridan, London Calling
After all, don't care how you want to sit there and deny the knowledge of River Mumma sitting on her rock - don't care how you deny the knowledge of fallen angels who can jump into your body as they please, or the knowledge of ancestors who sit beside your bed and watch when they not harkening on to the sounds of drumming - don't care how you deny any of it, all of it is still true. All of them things still exist, because them do not need the permission of your belief.
— Kei Miller, The Last Warner Woman
I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.
— Sara Sheridan, Truth Or Dare
Achieving a goal requires endurance and sacrifices beyond limitations.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Have you got something against faith?”“Have you got something against reason?
— Sam  Hunter, The Devil's Breath
Belief In SelfIf you quit while pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you've come to success. It might have been hidden behind that next door you decided not to open, since the last fifty doors revealed little or nothing.
— Kamil Ali, The Initiates
We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
— Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ
The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.
— Nikola Tesla
The truth is so dear to me that if Orholam stood on one side and truth on the other, I would turn my back on my creator himself.
— Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage. Christian slaveholders treated their slaves as they did the cattle in their fields: they worked them, scourged them, mated them , parted them, and sold them at will. Abolition came with the decline in religious belief, and largely through the efforts of those who were denounced as heretics.
— Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
I tried to believe in God, but I confess to you that God meant nothing in my life, and that in my secret heart I too felt a void where my childhood faith had been. But probably this feeling belongs only to individuals in transition. The grandchildren of these pessimists will frolic in the freedom of their lives, and have more happiness than poor Christians darkened with fear of Hell.
— Voltaire
And, suddenly, as if her head cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they're only in my own mind, she thought, they're there and worth fighting for.
— Diana Wynne Jones
I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.
— Luther Burbank
Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the atheist's head. The orthodox believer likes to think that nothing is left. That, however, is because he has only been accustomed to think in terms of his orthodoxy. In point of fact, a great deal is left.That is immediately obvious from the fact that many men and women have led active, or self-sacrificing, or noble, or devoted lives without any belief in God or immortality. Buddhism in its uncorrupted form has no such belief; nor did the great nineteenth-century agnostics; nor do the orthodox Russian Communists; nor did the Stoics. Of course, the unbelievers have often been guilty of selfish or wicked actions; but so have the believers. And in any case that is not the fundamental point. The point: is that without these beliefs men and women may yet possess the mainspring of full and purposive living, and just as strong a sense that existence can be worth while as is possible to the most devout believers.
— Julian Huxley, Man in the Modern World
The thought that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day of your life! Time will tell, so you got to persist!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some other belief, indifference is always in danger of giving place to some sort of fanaticism that can be as intolerant as any religion has ever been.
— Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture
William James used to preach the 'will to believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will to doubt' ... what is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.
— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
An ever-growing, ever-constant relationship with God makes us certain of what we believe and enables us to run with endurance.
— Katy Kauffman, 2 Timothy: Winning the Victory
Here is a fundamental difference between the man of faith and the man of unbelief. The unbeliever is 'of the world', judges everything by worldly standards, views life from the standpoint of time and sense, and weighs everything in the balances of his own carnal making. But the man of faith brings in God, looks at everything from His standpoint, estimates values by spiritual standards, and views life in the light of eternity. Doing this, he receives whatever comes as from the hand of God. Doing this, his heart is calm in the midst of the storm. Doing this, he rejoices in hope of the glory of God.
— Arthur W. Pink, The Sovereignty of God
If you keep on saying a single thing to yourself, you are likely to attract it to yourself, dreaming it always, then in a twinkle of an eye, it comes to you.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
My breathe would catch at the sight of violets-so common in the woods at home, so surprising in the mountains. The violet's message was "Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in." p264
— Jessica Stern, Denial: A Memoir of Terror
Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.
— Luther Burbank