Quotes About Belief

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it's only yourself.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

In adversity man is saved by hope.

Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.

Every man is a hero of his own story.

The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.

Jesus Christ-" "Is Not here right now," the man in black replied,"and even if he were, he could not save you.

There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity.

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

You name the TV psychic - they're con men.

The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God.

If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.