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Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.
And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.
Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.
What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.
The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
Having faith, beliefs, and convictions is a great thing, but your life is measured by the actions you take based upon them.
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief.
Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.
Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.
"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.
I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.
This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
I am of the belief that acting is a form of blended art that shouldn't be restricted to a particular type or even a country.
Have we arrived at our own faith and our own path or simply internalized the beliefs of parents, clergy, spouse, or friends?
Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.
I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.
Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.
Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal.
The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
Beliefs, and the feelings that we have about them, are the language that "speaks" to the quantum stuff that makes our realty.
Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
Remember this: Beliefs divide, values unite. When we go to the values that underlie so many religious beliefs, they unite us.
I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.
People can oftentimes mock me because of my belief in God and many times they insult me when I kneel to pray in many stadiums.
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
I do have this belief that we all have a chance to be great, beautiful people based on how we are raised and our surroundings.
Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.
I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?
When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.
I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.
A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.
The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .
Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
I hope that I would put whatever my political beliefs aside, and realize that my country's asked me to to something, and do it.