Quotes about Beliefs

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.

Ideals are dangerous things.  Realities are better.  They wound

Currently, our minds are devoted to things we do not want. Our positive intentions occupy but a tiny sliver of our minds. The rest is focused on the problems we hope the intentions will eliminate. The majority of our brainpower is devoted to the old beliefs of scarcity, problem relationships, and a God who shoots fire bolts from heaven.

the royal road to a person's heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most.

The ultimate freedom we have as individuals is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon and think about. By think we mean all the ways in which we are aware of things, including our memories, perceptions, and beliefs. The focus of your thoughts significantly affects everything else that happens in your life and evokes the feelings that frame your world and motivate your actions.

The older liberal theology, which indeed was still primarily a theology or a view of God, died and was resurrected in the form of a social ethic that one could share with people who had no reliance on a present God or a living Christ at all. Total inclusivism of all beliefs and practices except oppressive ones, such as the exclusivism of traditional Christianity itself, was the natural next step.

People perish for lack of knowledge, because only knowledge permits assured access to reality; and reality does not adjust itself to accommodate our false beliefs, errors, or hesitations in action. Life demands a steady hand for good, and only knowledge supplies this. This is as true in the spiritual life as elsewhere.

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people.