What you see is evidence of what you believe.
Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state of the religious mind can be understood only when we begin to understand what beauty is; and the understanding of beauty must be approached through total aloneness.
The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being.
What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted 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.
Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.
I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.
Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
God is real. God is here now. God is this moment revealed. For the most part, we are lost in the past and future world of the mind. To experience the living Presence of God in all things present, we will have come to where God is. We will have to become fully present. Otherwise we have no choice but to believe in God or disbelieve in God and neither is true, for the truth is beyond belief!
Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly,. . . [in] weeks rather than months.
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.