Anguish Quote by Anne Enright

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

— Jena Malone

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

— John Calvin

“Belief well earns the terrible hatred of the vitality. Belief is not freedom. Belief creates its necessary experience, progress germinates in retrogression. Consider the…

— Austin Osman, Spare

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

— Eckhart Tolle

When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this…

— Poppy Z. Brite

“Afflictions quicken us to prayer. It is a pity it should be so; but experience testifies, that a long course of ease and prosperity,…

— John Newton

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

— Rebecca West

It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

— John Dewey

Need is not quite belief.

— Anne Sexton

“My loss of faith is sudden, and it's not so much a conversion as a reappraisal. Children are still modeling the world, still understanding…

— Nick Harkaway

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

— Robert Anton Wilson

“The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.”

— Judith Lewis Herman