Believe - Belief Quotes

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 it isn’t needed any more.

People used to believe in what they didn’t know. Now we don’t dare believe in what we know.

The man who says to me, “Believe as I do, or God will damn you,” wil presently say, “Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you.”

That which you see is the first thing to disbelieve.

Few really believe. The most only believe they believe or even make believe.

I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your personal place; that makes you tolerant because you realize […]

God’s miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree – all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God. And I believe that is true of all creation itself.

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting. (Stanislaus Leszczynski)

Orthodoxy is my doxy – heterodoxy is another man’s doxy.

Creeds grow so thick along the way their boughs hide God.