Belief Quotes (page 2)

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• wise
• faith
• exist

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal

• believe
• responsibility
• believing

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible. Lillian Hellman

• god
• manly
• godly

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Thomas Paine

• thoughts
• resting
• thoughtfully

Belief is thought at rest. Larry Harvey

• illusion
• absences
• illusions

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

• learning
• beliefs
• learned

Belief gets in the way of learning. Jeremy Collier

• powerful
• power
• destructiveness

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated. Jena Malone

• value
• question
• held

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before. Carol P. Christ

• success
• import
• buildings

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. Lydia M. Child

• moving
• path
• likes

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. Samuel Butler

• powerful
• awesome
• experience

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. Tony Robbins

• actualization
• created
• actual

Belief creates the actual fact. William James

• failure
• reflection
• imagination

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. Edward Abbey

• waiting
• believe in god
• freedom

The most formidable chains are forged from beliefs. Ah, beliefs! Beliefs tear out the eyes and leave us blind and groping in the dark. If I believe in one proposition, I have become locked behind the door of that belief, and all other doors to learning and freedom, although standing open and waiting for me to enter, are now closed to me. If I believe in one God, one religion, yes, if I believe in God at all, if I have closed my mind to magic, to spirit, to salvation, to the unknown dimension... Gerry Spence

• saying
• innocent
• believe

it is not belief to say God exists and then continue sinning and hoarding your wealth while innocent people die of starvation. When belief does not control your most important decisions, it is not belief in the underlying reality, it is belief in the usefulness of believing. Scott Adams