7 G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes on Belief

G. I. Gurdjieff quotes on belief

7. Faith can not be given to man. Faith arises in a man and increases in its action in him not as the result of automatic learning, that is, not from any automatic ascertainment of height, breadth, thickness, form and weight, or from the perception of anything by sight, hearing, touch, smell or taste, but from understanding. Understanding is the essence obtained from information intentionally learned and from all kinds of experiences personally experienced.

11. If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

14. I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

27. RELIGION IS DOING; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. Whether he likes it or not he shows his attitude towards religion by his actions and he can show his attitude only by his actions. Therefore if his actions are opposed to those which are demanded by a given religion he cannot assert that he belongs to that religion.

33. Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

42. Respect every religion.

53. In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.