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I came to understand that belief is a preconception about the way reality should be; faith is the willingness to experience reality as it is, including the acceptance of the unknown. An interesting way to understand the difference is to use the words interchangeably in the same sentence: I believe in Santa Claus. I have faith in Santa Claus. Belief can impede spiritual unfoldment; faith is supremely necessary for it.

In my return to church, I had learned the hard way to avoid assumptions about other people's faith. For one thing, people kept surprising me. If I listened carefully to them, my conjectures about what they thought usually turned out to be wrong. For another thing, I was insecure enough about my own faith, such as it was, to resent other people telling me what they thought I believed and why they thought I believed it. So I tried to hear what my friends say about joining their loved ones after death without assuming I knew exactly what they meant.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

I would rather believe God doesn't exist than believe he doesn't care.

It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.

Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

Faith belongs to the human spirit. Faith is faith. Humanity is divided by religion, religion is the divider of humanity. If every human could be removed of their blindfolds and see that faith is in itself faith and that this is something which belongs to each and every human being, then at that time the dividers of religion will suddenly mean nothing and we will all see that we are united by faith in and of itself. There is only one faith and it is called faith. And no man needs to prove to another man that what he believes in exists, because even if it does not exist, his faith is his belief that it is there, that something is there, and that in itself is faith. So I do not need to prove to any man that what I believe in exists or not, there is no such contest between man, my faith breathes in the body of my belief; the fact that I believe is the breath of my faith.

أن المعتقد لا يندثر ، وأن بدا كذلك ، ولكنه يظهر بشكل مغاير ، عما ألفه المعادون له

Be true, unbeliever.

عندما يتبنى عدد كاف من الناس نفس الاعتقاد، يتحول هذا الاعتقاد تلقائيًا إلى حقيقة لا يمكن دحضها في نظر الكثير من الناس، حتى لو كان هذا الاعتقاد لا يمت للحقيقة بصلة

Belief in God, messiah or some spiritual con-artist is optional, but belief in the self is imperative.

Never ask for too much. It’s sabotage.

Your thoughts play a big role in your success. Belief and confess it. 'I shall not fail!

Although Anselm once famously (and I think truthfully) described the Christian faith as a “faith seeking understanding,” it seems to me that it can also be plausibly described, at least for some persons, as a “faith seeking belief.

Belief is the activator of Faith. When you believe your good can be drawn to you then your Faith moves it into expression.

Friend, you need to believe in something much bigger than yourself. You have to let go.

December 31st is only another day but the coming year can be a great blessing for you. Believe it, you'll enter the new year in victory. - Dele Andersen

In the end we make a choice to believe. That's how the Creed begins, 'credo' in Latin: I choose to believe these truths; I choose to build my life upon this foundation; I have decided that if I must take a leap of faith, I'll take this leap of faith rather than the other.

Having the eyes of a child does not mean that we are naïve. Rather, it means that we’ve become brave enough to believe in a great good while simultaneously embracing the reality of a great evil.