"I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences."
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"A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing."
"Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears."
"Do not get angry because others question what you believe, be calm and loving, for anger is the root of a faulty belief."
"Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open."
"One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief."
"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt."
"Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers."
"Whatever belief I am practicing the Law of Attraction will validate with evidence."
"I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply."
"One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none."
"Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do."
"I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence."
"A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible."
"It's for each of us to look at what we really do believe - what our belief system really consists of."
"Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it."
"You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true."
"To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving."
"If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me."
"If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind."