A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in...

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don’t believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?

Blessed are the doubters: for they shall not be easily fooled.

Belief can convert the mundane into the miraculous.

The others may have left. I did not.

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason...

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

Many were the steps taken in doubt, that saw their shapeless ends in no time. Those who travail in faith today will truimph in joy tomorrow. Let faith lead the way.

The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief.

A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind.

The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.

Rigid traditions capture soulsprisons of spiritual thoughtman’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.

In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, ‘You repeat Satan’s temptation, whenever you admire the wonders of science, and forget that I am the Author of the Universe and...

Ist das Göttliche vielleicht gar nicht irgendeine abstrakte unbegreifliche “Kraft” namens Gott, sondern unsere einmalige menschliche Fähigkeit, diese Kraft wahrzunehmen?

My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what...

They want to have everything but can’t afford it. Their belief is that home prices will go up, and their income will go up.

When story and behavior are consistent, we relax; when story and behavior are inconsistent, we get tense. We have a deep psychological need for our stories and behaviors to be consistent. We need to be...

God created man, Society created Class!

The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day.

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.[Apology to the international anti-submarine committee for being absent from several meetings during...

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and...

He was the old breed of Filipino, almost extinct, who required that he deserve what he received; who would feel guilt, not only shame or embarrassment; who accounted for each day in the office and...

Hope is a belief in a better tomorrow.,

Believe in yourself. Determined to pursue your goals.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ”I believe,” three times.

Entrepreneurs, let’s begin to turn our desire and design into reward.

Beliefs are physical. A thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief. The belief then becomes biology.

You cannot believe everything you hear

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and...

Leaders don’t correct people to success as much as believe them to it.

To invoke Jesus’ name is to place yourself in his presence, to open yourself to his power, his energy. The prayer of Jesus’ name actually brings God closer, making him more present. He is always...

You decide every moment of every day who you are and what you believe in.The good news is you get another chance to improve in another second.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith… these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is...

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...

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind

If you get enough people believing one thing, it’s like reality bends itself to allow that to exist.

Anything is possible.””You really believe that?””It’s what the great love stories are about, right?Beating the odds.

People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a...

But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn’t believe in it?

The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Making this a better world happens one person at a time. You cannot force your beliefs on anyone. Rather, be the example that others can emulate. Live your life so that others may be inspired...

Be careful of the lie you believe about yourself, sooner or later, you will be convinced of it.