Quotes About Belief

If a man says to you, I have labored and not found, do not believe him. If he says, I have not labored but still have found, do not believe him. If he says, I have labored and found, you may believe him.

The essence of our faith in the sanctity of the Bible is that its words contain that which God wants us to know and to fulfill. How these words were written down is not the fundamental problem.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.

If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right!

I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...

My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in GOD, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts. Abraham Lincoln, in an address to congress July 4th, 1861

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

Amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance in God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.