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...

And Dil was realizing that there are few things that so shake belief as seeing, clearly and precisely, the object of that belief. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because...

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.

The one who gives shade to others, is the one who is standing directly into Sunlight.

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

You know, it’s a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens...

My past conduct was so transparent and so honest that when my enemies spread rumours about me nobody believed them.

Sometimes I just wonder.Do we believe that God revolves around us?Or, do we believe that we revolve around God?These are staggering questions.

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, but he says ‘I know not what you mean by God. I am without the...

Life is like butter – when things cool down it can be reshaped

I believe in roses. And I believe in putting roses into a vase and sitting the vase on the table. I believe in getting lost and being found, I believe in going barefoot, and in...

Belief… was its own magic-so long as it was carefully placed, often examined, like a bridge kept in careful repair.

That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.

[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing.

Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.

You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.

The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they’re so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all...

She said she loved me, and I believed her, because she was looking directly at another man when she said it.

Stop and say something good about yourself! Believe what you have just said! Pray for what you have just believed! Have faith for what you just prayed for! Work out that faith! …and surely goodness...

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call ‘reality’ may be the greatest myth of all.

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...

Whatever thought or belief that cannot produce happiness or growth in your life, doesn’t belong in your mind.

I believed, I believe, I want to believe, and I will believe

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn’t like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and...

The only consolation, even for someone like him who had been a good man in bed, was sexual peace: the slow, merciful extinction of his venereal appetite. At eighty-one years of age he had enough...

Religions are all living faiths and their essence does not consist in their externals such as rituals, methods of prayer, ceremonies, etc. It rather consist in the inner beliefs and convictions which they carry along...

The Lord is God. God is Holy.

I shall not be afraid of a calamity. God is my defender.

It is only by grace and hope in great God of wonders, we receive strength and vitality for everyday life.

Also I didn’t habe 20/20 vision whch you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

Chosen

Believe in yourself. Determine to pursue your goals.

It is better to believe than to doubt.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Be true to your authenticity and innovate with brave ammunition.

How can I not believe that there is a God who exists and loves, when the people before me are infused with that love and pour it out daily?

It’s awkward how some people refuse to be humans regarding their behaviours! Isn’t that against God’s will for he created them as humans? And yet, they at night hold hands up and ask God for...

It’s about people who still are unaware. Therefore they strive to live by all means: love like no one before them loved, believe like no one ever believed, desire like no one else ever desired…

Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.

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.

For as soon as something becomes impossible it slipslides out of belief entirely, whether it’s true or not.

Belief is the magic key that unlocks your dreams.

Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us and never, ever reject us (hate us, ignore us, or be indifferent to...

Always believe.

…if you ask me whether or not I’m an atheist, I wouldn’t even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I’m supposed not to believe in, and I’ve never seen...

What I’m asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.