Quotes About Belief

Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is—nor yet so good a Christian.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

I will catch Christ with a greased worm.

In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you are right. As one grows older, this is easier still.

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before.

History may be read as the story of the magnificent rearguard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

The rationalist is convinced that every sophont is at bottom predictable, acting according to consistent (if not necessarily already well-known) rules. The mystic, for his part, believes that every creature conceals within its breast some element of the wild and unpredictable.

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration. The Christian religion, which alone has reason, does not acknowledge as her true children those who believe without inspiration. It is not that she excludes reason and custom. On the contrary, the mind must be open to proofs, must be confirmed by custom, and offer itself in humbleness to inspirations, which alone can produce a true and saving effect

Your admission to Complainers that you are at fault is not only likely to be taken as a sign of submission, but, more importantly, you are just confirming their belief that the power to solve the problems that they are pointing out is, in truth, yours. You validate for them the fact that indeed it's all your fault and they are blameless.

They are expressions of faith, and they stand for man's struggle to relate himself to his past and to his God. With

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.

An insane delusion can't be held by a group at all. A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way…. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion.

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.