Quotes About Belief

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evil they fear.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.

They reckon ill who leave me out;When me they fly, I am the wings;I am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

States!... Go put your creed into your deed.

Go put your creed into your deed.

A man may love a paradox without either losing his wit or his honesty.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

The faith that stand on authority is not faith.

The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.