"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."

Paine, Thomas on belief   

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"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."

Pascal, Blaise on belief
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"If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace."

Pascal, Blaise on belief
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"Man makes holy what he believes."

Renan, Ernest on belief   

"All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief."

Robbins, Anthony on belief
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"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives."

Robbins, Anthony on belief   

"What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out."

Russell, Bertrand on belief
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"Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?"

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on belief   

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."

Saying, Traditional on belief
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"To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely."

Smith, Lillian on belief   

"The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome."

Swift, Jonathan on belief   

"We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings."

Ovid on belief
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"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on belief
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

James, William on belief
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"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on belief
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"As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more."

Jenkins, David on belief   

"Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy."

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos on belief
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"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey."

Kierkegaard, Søren on belief
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"First we have to believe, and then we believe."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on belief   

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on belief   

"When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them."

Mcwilliams, Peter on belief   

"It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake."

Mencken, H. L. on belief
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"How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?"

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on belief   

"I believe because it is impossible."

Terence on belief