"Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good."
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"It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all."
"A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man"
"The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves."
"Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions."
"Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief."
"Believe you can and you can. Believe you will and you will. See yourself achieving, and you will achieve."
"It really is true that you are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind, and you can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind."
"The single most influential force that controls your attitudes, beliefs, capabilities and emotions is repetition - the words you silently use, over and over again, in your internal dialogue with yourself."
"No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself."
"My biggest fear is death, because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief ... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere."
"In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God."
"Do not believe hastily."
"Where belief is painful we are slow to believe."
"I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now."
"When belief in a god dies, the god dies."
"It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life."
"There were days I asked for it-prayed for it when I went to sleep. The belief that I would see you again, that I could find you-the hope for it-was the only thing that kept me going."
"For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes."
"Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed."