True Belief Quotes

Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

Surely God will never give preeminence to unbelievers over the true believers.

The starting-point and chief principle of every science, and hence of theology also, is not only methodical doubt, but positive doubt. One can believe only what one has perceived to be true from reasonable grounds, and consequently one must have the courage to continue doubting until one has found reliable grounds to satisfy the reason.

For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love.

If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe then you should try to become an actor.

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

If you don't live it, you don't believe it.

It is absurd to think that a man can believe in Christ, with his heart, and it not have a radical affect on the rest of his life.

I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

The secret of success is doing things not merely because they are popular, but because you deeply believe in them.

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

Knowledge is justified belief.

I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.” May 19, 1962

Deep down in my heart and what I've seen and what I've been around, there is nothing better than Islam.

The proof that one truly believes is in action.

Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faith and beliefs. You have not to give up your religion, but to give up clinging to the husk of mere ritual and ceremony. To get to the fundamental core of Truth underlying all religions, reach beyond religion.