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Quotes About Belief

Every man's life is a plan of God.
~ Horace Bushnell
Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.
~ J. C. Ryle
Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.
~ Jacques Ellul
No happy man bases his decisions on fear.
~ Jake Anderson
Credit . . . is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.
~ James Blish
I saw God! Do you doubt it? Do you dare to doubt it? I saw the Almighty Man! His hand Was resting on a mountain!
~ James Kenneth Stephen
We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.
~ James Madison
God created a path to his kingdom that is simple and straight. The obstacles that stand between you and God were created by man.
~ Jean Charest
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
~ John Burroughs
A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.
~ John Dyer
Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered
~ John Piper
The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
~ John Tillotson
Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.
~ John Tillotson
Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.
~ Joseph Addison
What one man can think, another man can do.
~ Jules Verne
For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
~ Juvenal
Man is programmed to find the programmer.
~ Kedar Joshi
I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
~ Cesare Pavese
The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.
~ Charles Clover
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
~ Chinua Achebe
In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.
~ Clyde S. Kilby
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge
~ Cormac McCarthy