Belief
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Also: what one believes.
Belief has attained the level of faith when it motivates life and shapes the mode of living. The acceptance of a teaching as true is not faith; that is mere belief. 101:8.1
Belief is always limiting and binding; faith is expanding and releasing. Belief fixates, faith liberates. 101:8.2
Convictions about God may be arrived at through wise reasoning, but the individual becomes God-knowing only by faith, through personal experience. 102:6
After all, it is what one believes rather than what one knows that determines conduct and dominates personal performances. 99:4.5
The higher a creature’s education, the more respect he has for the knowledge, experience, and opinions of others. 25:3.12
beliefs, when they once become a part of one’s religion, are hard to get away from. 153:3.6
Belief may not be able to resist doubt and withstand fear, but faith is always triumphant over doubting, for faith is both positive and living. 102:6.7
The religions of authority require of men uniformity in belief, but this is impossible of realization in the present state of the world. 155:6.9
It requires time for men and women to effect radical and extensive changes in their basic and fundamental concepts of social conduct, philosophic attitudes, and religious convictions. 152:6.1
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Peter's vivid dream 153:3.6 — Acts 10:9-16.
- Love fellows as I love you 102:6.7 — Jn 13:34-35; Jn 15:12.
Where it appears
Belief is linked in 5 paragraphs of the text.