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| Det kräver antagligen mer tro att leva utan tro än med. | Peter de Vries (1910-1993) |
| Det är hjärtat som förnimmer Gud, och inte förnuftet. Detta är tron: Gud är kännbar för hjärtat, inte för förståndet. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Det är med tron som med gummistövlar. De är till glädje bara för dem som har dem på sig. | Sten Kaalø |
| Det är svårt att tro på en religion som lägger sån stor vikt på kyskhet och oskuld. | Madonna (1958-) |
| Fåfängliga är de tusen trosbekännelser som rör människornas hjärtan, obeskrivligt fåfängliga. | Emily Bronte (1818-1848) |
| Jag vet att Gud inte kommer ge mig saker jag inte klarar av. Jag önskar bara att han inte litade på mig så mycket. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| Målet för modern propaganda är inte längre att forma en åsikt utan att skapa en aktiv och mytisk tro. | Jacques Ellul |
| Tro bara hälften av det du ser och ingenting av det du hör. | Dinah Mulock Craik (1826-1887) |
| Tro bara hälften av det du ser och inget av det du hör. | Dinah Mulock Craik (1826-1887) |
| Tro eller handla. | Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832-1910) |
| Tro utan kärlek är övertro | Stein Mehren (1935-) |
| Tro utan tvivel är ingen tro. | Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) |
| Tron är den fågel som känner ljuset och sjunger medan gryningen ännu är mörk. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Var och en blir salig i sin tro | Fredrik den store (1712-1786) |
| Vi är ansvariga för det vi väljer att tro på. | John Henry Newman (1801-1890) |
| Våra levnadsregler är nötta och urholkade, vår tro är borta och vi har inte fått så mycket vetande att det ersätter tron. Det är ett outhärdligt tomrum som får många att söka sig tillbaka till tron i olika förklädnader. | Suzanne Brügger |
| Har I en tro som et sennepsfrø, kan I sige til dette bjerg: Flyt dig herfra og derhen! og det vil flytte sig. Og intet vil være umuligt for jer. | Biblen |
| Den ting, som du tror på, sker altid? og det er troen på tingen, der får det til at ske. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| Én person med en tro har samme styrke som nioghalvfems mennesker, der blot har en interesse. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| Hvorfor vil du altid tro på din tvivl og tvivle på din tro? Tvivl engang imellem lidt på din tvivl, og tro lidt på din tro. | Olfert Ricard |
| Tro deler folk. Tvivl forener dem. | Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) |
| Den, som ikke har kirken som sin moder, har ikke Gud som sin fader. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| Tro er at tro på det, du ikke ser; troens belønning er at se det, du tror. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. | Aaron Siskind |
| Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. | Albert Pike (1809-1891) |
| I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. | Aleister Crowley (1875-) |
| Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is. | Angel Cordero, Jr. |
| People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. | Anne Rice (1941-) |
| Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd | Annie Besant (1847-1933) |
| Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith. | Austin Farrer |
| The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player. | Bernie Lincicome |
| He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. | Bertie C. Forbes |
| Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances | Bruce Barton (1886-1967) |
| Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about ~where~ we shall land, but rather on the belief that we ~shall~ land. | Carter Heyward |
| I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent. | Cedric Hardwicke (1893-) |
| Faith is the heroism of the intellect. | Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842-) |
| The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God | Charles Hodge (1894-1964) |
| I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation. | Chastity Bono (1969-) |
| The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups | Clark Coleman |
| To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. | Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) |
| Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope. | Corazon Aquino (1933-) |
| Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there | Cullen Hightower |
| Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark | Dan Millman |
| A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. | David Hockney (1937-) |
| Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. | David S. Muzzey |
| The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity | Donald Morgan |
| You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe | Dr. Carl Sagan (1934-1996) |
| You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it. | Dr. Robert Anthony |
| Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. | Edith Hamilton (1867-1963) |
| The belief in some being who can be the judge of all human matters is a very comfortable one - all wrongs will be righted and all rights will be rewarded | Eli Khamarov |
| What until recently seemed to be only the apocalyptic fantasies of the Christian faith has today entered the sphere of the soberest scientific calculations; the sudden end of history | Emil Brunner |
| As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. | Emmanuel Teney |
| You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God | Ernest Dimnet (1866-1954) |
| Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted | Francis Quarles (1592-1644) |
| Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse | Frans de Wall |
| The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority | Franz Boas (1858-) |
| Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith | Garth Brooks (1956-) |
| Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to | George Seaton (1911-) |
| The world's a stage, where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence do act the parts | Guillaume de Salluste |
| When belief in a god dies, the god dies | Harlan Ellison (1934-) |
| If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them | Harvey MacKay |
| Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| The greatest American superstition is a belief in facts | Hermann Keyserling |
| A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God | Huston Smith |
| Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resemble what actually happens | Ian Stewart |
| Christianity exceeds all other faiths in its power to deform and finally invert the mental process | Ida White |
| One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time | Idries Shah |
| I believe in the sun when it's not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in God even when he is silent. | Irish Sayings |
| Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her. | James Cone |
| Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. | James Harvey Robinson (1863-1936) |
| The commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity | James Mackintosh |
| I believe 'credibility' is one of the biggest issues yet to be addressed by Internet advertisers. | Jef I. Richards |
| The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence | Jeremiah Day |
| Belief gets in the way of learning. | Jeremy Collier (1650-1726) |
| I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we. | Jim Allchin |
| Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. | John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) |
| This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus | John Newton (1725-1807) |
| If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. | John Paul Jones (1747-1792) |
| The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus | John Piper (1903-) |
| I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities | John Robinson |
| The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deceptions | Kathleen Hall Jamieson |
| That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary. | Kira Nerys |
| Deep faith eliminates fear | Lech Walesa (1943-1983) |
| In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides | Leo Booth |
| The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact | Leslie Stephen |
| Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. | Lillian Smith (1897-1966) |
| If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. | Lord Salisbury |
| They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness | Louise Erdrich (1954-) |
| America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. | Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) |
| If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. | Madeleine L'Engle |
| Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to | Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) |
| All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask. Yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method | Max Born (1882-1970) |
| When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover | Michael Drayton |
| Men of faith know that throughout history the crimes committed in liberty's name have been exceeded only by those committed in God's name. | Mills E. Godwin |
| Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. | Oswald Chambers |
| When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly | Patrick Overton |
| Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith. | Paul Brunton |
| Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition | Paul Keller (1873-1932) |
| Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. | Ramona C. Carroll |
| If you don't have faith in your people in the field, you are lost. If that faith is blind faith, then it is not faith at all, just maladministration. | Ray Cave |
| Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. | Robert Anton Wilson (1932-) |
| I believe in an extraconsciousness that looks after you. It only comes into play in extreme circumstances, which for me is in the mountains. That's where I fit in best. | Roger Marshall |
| Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. | Roy R. Gilson |
| Why? Because I believe I will. If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a blueprint, you don't face facts-what can stop you? | Ruth Gordon (1896-1985) |
| Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring something regardless of the consequences | Sherwood Eddy |
| Faith is reason grown courageous. | Sherwood Eddy |
| Faith is not contrary to reason. | Sherwood Eddy |
| To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible. | Stuart Chase (1888-) |
| Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. | Susan Taylor |
| Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution | Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-) |
| Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter | Thomas Brooks |
| Faith is a continuation of reason. | William Adams (1564-1620) |
| Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see | William Newton Clarke |
| Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. | William W. Watt |
| His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right | Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) |
| Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. | Alan Watts (1915-1973) |
| Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce. | Albert Bandura (1925-) |
| The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. | Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) |
| If you believe that discrimination exists, it will. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required 'blood and sweat and tears | Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958) |
| Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? | Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) |
| Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838) |
| I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose | Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) |
| We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source. | Clifton Paul Fadiman |
| I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way. | Corazon Aquino (1933-) |
| Hell, have I been a hell-raiser! | Dusty Springfield (1939-) |
| Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. | Edward de Bono |
| Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. | Erich Fromm (1900-1980) |
| Don't let me catch anyone talking about the universe in my department | Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) |
| [Her] love and tenderness gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones. | Eugene O'Neill |
| The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a place to live | George E. Woodberry |
| The principle part of faith is patience | George MacDonald (1824-) |
| Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| (Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands | Howard Zinn (1922-) |
| I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness. | Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) |
| When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. | John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) |
| Faith is never identical with piety. | Karl Barth (1886-1968) |
| The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. | Lillian Smith (1897-1966) |
| In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come. | Madeleine L'Engle |
| You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief | Marianne Moore (1887-1972) |
| I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country. | Marian Anderson (1902-1993) |
| The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us | Mario Cuomo (1932-) |
| Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself | Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) |
| Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone | Paul Simon (1941-) |
| Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. | Paul Tillich (1886-1965) |
| One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. | Peter Marshall (1927-1949) |
| The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen. | Ralph Marston |
| Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects. | Ralph Waldo Trine |
| Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. | Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-) |
| There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing | Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
| Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. | Robert Burton (1577-1640) |
| Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. | Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| I believe in eight of the ten commandments; and I believe in going to church every Sunday unless there's a game on | Martin (Ramon Estevez) Sheen (1945-) |
| I believe because it is impossible | Tertullian (155-220) |
| Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself. | Thomas Merton (1915-1968) |
| So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong | Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) |
| Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact | William James (1842-1910) |
| If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible. | William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) |
| Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. | Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958) |
| The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs | James Allen (1864-1942) |
| I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it. | Norman Cousins (1912-1990) |
| When belief in a god dies, the god dies | Harlan Ellison (1934-) |
| A belief is not true because it is useful | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious | Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) |
| Don't let me catch anyone talking about the universe in my department | Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) |
| The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups | Clark Coleman |
| When you can get people to believe in virgin birth and resurrection of the dead as reality - well, what can one say | Grace McGarvie |
| Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. | Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958) |
| The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs | James Allen (1864-1942) |
| If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible. | Stuart Chase (1888-) |
| Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances | Bruce Barton (1886-1967) |
| When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly | Patrick Overton |
| Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| Fear is faith that it won't work out. | Mary Manin Morrissey |
| You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. | Mary Manin Morrissey |
| Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. | Ramona C. Carroll |
| Fear is faith that it won't work out. | William Newton Clarke |
| Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to | William Newton Clarke |
| Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. | William Newton Clarke |
| Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see | William Newton Clarke |
| Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. | Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) |
| Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| I believe deeply that we must find, all of us together, a new spirituality. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. | Erich Fromm (1900-1980) |
| Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow. | Aaron Siskind |
| We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. | Aaron Siskind |
| I don't believe in mathematics. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Believe me, than in half the creeds. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| Need is not quite belief. | Anne Sexton (1928-1974) |
| All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do | Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) |
| An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports | Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875) |
| If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out | Arthur Koestler (1905-1938) |
| Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. | Bhagavad Gita |
| So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them | Bible |
| You better believe there will be times in your life when you'll be feeling like a stumbling fool. So take it from me: you'll learn more from your accident than anything that you could ever learn in school. | Billy Joel (1949-) |
| I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. | Charles Darwin (1809-1882) |
| Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress | Charles Darwin (1809-1882) |
| Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation. | Chastity Bono (1969-) |
| Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. | Christopher Morley (1890-1957) |
| I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and White chapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. | Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961) |
| If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. | Denis Waitley (-1933) |
| Hell, have I been a hell-raiser! | Dusty Springfield (1939-) |
| When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we who quit them | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| If you believe yourself sufficiently hungry, you will eat your own thoughts | Frank Herbert (1920-1986) |
| Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will, for the will, as emotion of command, is the distinguishing characteristic of sovereignty and power. That is to say, the less a person knows how to command, the more urgent is his desire for one who commands, who commands sternly - a God, a prince, a caste, a physician, a confessor, a dogma, a party consciene. From whence perhaps it could be inferred that the two world religions, Buddhism and Christianity, might well have had the cause of their rise, and especially of their rapid extension, in an extraordinary malady of the will. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory.. For without that you cannot be born again. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. | George Carlin (1937-) |
| Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| People believe what they want to believe, and I want to believe you're a smart man. | Grim Fandango |
| I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest. | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs | Henry Miller (1891-1980) |
| I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. | James Joyce (1882-1941) |
| If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness | Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) |
| I don't know if I believe in God just as much as I don't know if gravity exists. All I know is that I feel it and I couldn't explain the world without it. | Kate Miller |
| The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. | Lily Tomlin (1939-) |
| At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded | Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) |
| If I err in my belief that the souls of men are immortal, I err gladly, and do not wish to lose so delightful an error | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method | Max Born (1882-1970) |
| God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk. | Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) |
| Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. | Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) |
| What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. | Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) |
| If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life. | Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) |
| Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact | Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) |
| I can believe anything as long as it is incredible | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times. | Publius Ovidius Naso (43 f.Kr.-17 f.Kr.) |
| Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord, and there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve. | quran |
| O you who believe! when the call is made for prayer on Friday, then hasten to the remembrance of Allah and leave off trading; that is better for you, if you know. (The Congregation 62.9) | quran |
| Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. | Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) |
| The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. | Richard Bach (1936-) |
| It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. | Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) |
| Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power | Robert Collier (1885-) |
| A God who gave his entire time for 40 years to the work of converting three millions of people, and succeeded in getting only two men, and not a single woman, decent enough to enter the promised land? (Num | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| My belief is that to have no wants is divine | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man's beliefs never will. | Stephen Colbert (1964-) |
| As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Alas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| He does not believe that does not live according to his belief | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Is it a fact that Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world, and how is it proved? If a God, he could not die, and as a man he could not redeem | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| Thank God, I have my work, but instead of earning money by it, I need money to be able to work; that is the difficulty. I think there are no signs in my work that indicate that I shall fail. And I am not a person who works slowly or tamely. Drawing becomes a passion with me, and I throw myself into it more and more. I do not have great plans for the future; if for a moment I feel rising within me the desire for a life without care, for prosperity, each time I go fondly back to the trouble and the cares, to a life full of hardship, and think: It is better so; I learn more from it, and make progress. This is not the road on which one perishes. I only hope the trouble and the cares will not become unbearable, and I have confidence I shall succeed in earning enough to keep myself, not in luxury, but as one who eats his bread in the sweat of his brow. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| The best way to know God is to love many things. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| The prince of darkness is a gentleman | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Det er betre å tvile før man tror,- enn etterpå. | Ordtak |
| Det er vondt å tru på alle, men det er verre å tru ingen. | Ordtak |
| Er man ikke tro mot seg selv, hvordan kan man da være tro mot andre? | A. Smeland |
| Forskjellen på en agnostiker og en ateist, er at agnostikeren vet ikke, mens ateisten tror ikke | A. Smeland |
| Gud er et verbum, ikke et substantiv | Ranveig Sørensen |
| Gud kalte dem ikke for De ti Forslag. | Ranveig Sørensen |
| Himmelen er skilleveggen mellom tro og vantro. | Ranveig Sørensen |
| Jeg er ikke helt sikker på hva Gud er. Jeg antar man kunne kalle meg en katolsk agnostiker, men alt i alt tror jeg det finnes en sportslig chanse for at Gud eksisterer | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Jeg tror på skogen og på engen og på natten, der kornet gror. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Man mister ikke troen, den opphører ganske enkelt å forme ens liv. | Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) |
| Man skal bare tro på det som lar seg bevise. De fleste mennesker prøver å bevise det de tror på. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Mennesker kan tro på det umulige, men mennesker kan aldri tro på det unsannsynelige. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Når menn blir religiøse på sine gamle dager, gir de bare til Gud de restene djevelen ikke ville ha | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Skepsis er troens begynnelse. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Troen er Guds funksjon. Derfor nytter det ikke å fundere, man må fungere. | Eivind Berggrav (1884-1959) |
| Troen er ikke en trylleformel som tvinger Gud til å handle efter min vilje. | Kjell Arild Pollestad (1949-) |
| Troen slutter der bekymringene begynner og bekymringene slutter der troen begynner. | Georg Müller |