Believing Quotes
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"Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out."
"Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am."
"Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free."
"My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action."
"We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish."
"Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief. If you have no magic with you it is not because magic does not exist but it is because you do not believe in it. Even if the sun shines brightly upon your skin every day, if you do not believe in the sunlight, the sunlight for you does not exist."
"that there are many things that we cant understand. the past. the bad things that happened... and we become afraid. of what might happen in the future. its okay to be afraid. but we have to keep hoping and believeing... to keep hoping and trying our best to be good and do good. even when we're afraid"
"The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell."
"But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…"
"Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre."
"So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can."
"Faith to me is trusting in every evidence that something is―that it is possible, that it is significant, that it is real."
"Believe in people, they fly for a day. Teach them to believe in themselves, they soar for a lifetime."
"Believe so brightly that everyone sees the beauty in believing."
"Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve."
"A skeptical man with a credo, 'Seeing is believing'. One day he found something so alien and said, 'I can't believe what I just saw'. Then the other man with different credo, 'Blessed are they who believe without seeing'. One day he found something so alien and said,'This is blasphemy, sinful and evil'."
"Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in."
"If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence."
"Maybe not today, Maybe not tomorrow. But somewhere down the line, there has to be a light."
"With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation."
"Sometimes, the scariest thing you will ever have to do is trust God to fight the battles you can no longer fight."
"Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet."
"Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man."
"I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you have it all wrong. In fact, there are a lot of people in this world who do."
"I would hesitate to use the word 'success' in the way many people do. I don't know that I would apply it to what I've done as though I have now reached the ultimate goal. To me success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else. Success comes as you have confidence in yourself. Self-confidence is built by succeeding, even if the success is small. It is the believing that makes it possible."
"There's nothing I did not hear, there's nothing I did not see, but I never despair."
"Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for some"
"Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men"
"Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds"
"Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie"
"Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?"
"Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in"
"Give me something to worship whatever.” Cries the human soul"
"Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity."
"Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be"
"There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom"
"Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's"
"One man's faith is considered idolatry by another"
"Apologetics=faith is weak, lets defend it"
"Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors."
"The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live"
"You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full."
"A spiritual realm is more obedient than a temporal one. In a spiritual realm, people obey the Supreme Being through his priests; in a temporal realm people don't obey wholeheartedly as they distrust their corrupt officials."
"If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do, you will worship Him wholeheartedly. You will praise him with thanksgiving. If you believe He is angry against you, you will come to him with fear and trying to appease his anger. And you don't know when His anger will be over. Such a god keeps you in a perpetual psychological anguish. That is the typical kind of god we usually worship. That is the typical god approved by authority."
"Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world"
"God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him on that level they are all equal"
"What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope."
"Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power and claim it for god. God does not seek power, he is already powerful."
"No holy book is more inspired than the other. They are all inspired according to their gods."
"Anyone can write a holy book, if he feels god is calling him to do so"
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