Quotes Tagged "believing"

Faith is believing in something that I am not. And since the vast majority of this existence is made up of what I am not, I’m left wondering why is faith so difficult.

I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you have it all wrong. In fact, there are a lot of people in this world who do.

The universe always bends reality to our wish when we hold the vision of what we want with unbending intent.

Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre.

I would hesitate to use the word 'success' in the way many people do. I don't know that I would apply it to what I've done as though I have now reached the ultimate goal. To me success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else. Success comes as you have confidence in yourself. Self-confidence is built by succeeding, even if the success is small. It is the believing that makes it possible.

Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.

Seeing is not always believing.

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

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.

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

I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis.

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

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

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

I have been receiving calls from all quarters since the release of 'Madras.' I need to thank audiences for believing in me and making this film successful.

I'm now the poster child for not believing everything I'm told.

I am a believing and practising Muslim - but I am also a social democrat.