Richard Bach Quotes

What you believe you experience.

I think people can believe in anything.

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

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.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

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.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.

I'm not superstitious. I don't really believe in star signs, sorry, or superstitions.

So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.

To believe is not intellectual assent: "Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all" - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart.

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like what you mean when you say, "I believe in my friend."

You have to believe the magic to see it.

Now I realize that it isn't the miracle that creates the believer. Instead, we are all believers. We believe that the illusion of the material world is completely real. That belief is our only prison. It prevents us from making the journey into the unknown.

people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one

What God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof. Indeed, to seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous.