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Quotes About Belief

Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death
~ Daniel Webster
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
~ Doris Lessing
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.
~ E. Haldeman-Julius
There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.
~ E. W. Howe
It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be
~ Edith Wharton
The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
~ Elbert Hubbard
Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.
~ Emma Goldman
The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
~ Ernest Renan
Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist
~ Francois Mauriac
The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
~ Gautama Buddha
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.
~ Giacomo Casanova
There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.
~ H. G. Wells
Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man.
~ Mark Kac
I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.
~ Mark Kirk
I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.
~ Martha Stewart
I am a God-fearing man. In fact, I don't go to church because I'm afraid I'll run into him there.
~ Matthew Diamond
The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality.
~ Melvin J. Ballard
You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.
~ Napoleon Hill
There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.
~ Nathanael Emmons