4,325 Quotes About Belief

We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.

A mind with something to prove is rarely the most rational one.

Feelings will get you out of control, but faith doesn't.

Probe, challenge, and grow beyond any belief system that does not acknowledge you as already divine and Grace as already present. Don’t stop until everything you seek is already given.

As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970, she took refuge in her belief that she was making progress as a writer. But she realised that both systems of survival were, however, fundamentally illusory. She wrote, she said, quoting Oscar Wilde because, 'Work never seems to me a reality, but a way of getting rid of reality'.

Tain’t what a man don’t know that hurts him; it’s what he knows that just ain’t so.

I don’ know if we believe that things can’t be done. Rather, I think that we’re too fearful to believe that maybe they can.

God was an honest mistake like thinking the sun moves round the earth.

I must look at the 'nature' of God, not the 'nature' of the challenge. For the former means everything and the latter means nothing.