Quotes About Belief

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

Salvation is not a plan; it's a Man.

It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

Believe things, rather than man.

No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.

Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.

We must dream so big that without the support that comes through favor with God and man, we could never accomplish what is in our hearts.

My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.