Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.