Quotes About Belief

Man does what he can, and God what he will.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.

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

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.