Quotes About Belief

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.

Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

I am trying to be as impartial as possible. As you can tell from the trailers for Mad Men, I am a person who believes that you should know nothing.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems.

Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.