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Quotes About Belief

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
~ Jonathan Swift
A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.
~ Joseph Alsop
I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man.
~ Joyce Meyer
Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
~ Rudyard Kipling
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
~ Samuel Butler
It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
~ Seneca the Younger
Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.
~ Sherman Alexie
Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.
~ Simone Weil
Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
~ Simone Weil
One of the most fallacious doctrines originated by Satan and propounded by man is that man is saved alone by the grace of God; that belief in Jesus Christ alone is all that is needed for salvation
~ Spencer W. Kimball
No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ.
~ Stephen Charnock
You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.
~ Tom Stoppard
Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.
~ W. Clement Stone
The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.
~ David Suchet
Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
~ Epictetus
It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea
~ Ernest Hemingway
Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.
~ Euripides
Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.
~ Ezra Taft Benson