Quotes About Belief

As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.

God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

God is one; there are not many Gods, one for each tribe among men.

It is your attitude about yourself that a man will adopt.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

Men who not religious or artists are fools.