Beth Moore Quotes

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief? The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.

How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.