Believing Quotes

Seeing is not always believing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire

Faith, Power, Reason

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou

Nothing, Young, Knowing

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, Faith, Hope

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare

God, Light, Darkness

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis

Humble, Real, Why

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle

Religion, Him, Put

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.
Joel Osteen

Best, Done, Why

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin Luther

Alone, Two, Dying

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Born, Tree, Beliefs

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Franz Kafka

Whatever, Create, Exist

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yourself, Happen, Magic

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Albert Camus

History, Sun, Between

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.
Bill Cosby

God, End, Thought

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack Obama

Love, Success, Faith

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead

Wise, Enough, While

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Ayn Rand

Learning, May, Control

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
Jim Henson

Life, Keep, Write

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle

Lives, Arguing, Debating

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine

Happiness, Infidelity, Faithful

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
Alveda King

Human, Lie, Racism

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge

God, Truth, Nothing

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!
Angelina Jolie

Someone, Enough, Around

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
Epictetus

Good, Desire, Begin

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
Denis Waitley

Understand, Seeing

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
Louisa May Alcott

Life, Power, True

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
Theodor Adorno

Someone, Lie, Cannot

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel Butler

Religion, Family, Health

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
Neil Young

Religion, Nature, Creation

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