4,325 Quotes About Belief

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

You can worship God twenty four hours a day but your destiny depends on the cards he lets you play

My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all.

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

Even in the face of overwhelming proof, most people think, 'What they see or hear first, they believe first.

Three great lessons for my children; love God, love yourself and love your neighbour as yourself.

The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become.

If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then you don't really believe in it. Faith is a verb.

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.