Quotes About Belief

The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

It's funny, because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.

There's nothing man ever dreams of that God hasn't already thought of!

...man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.

Every man's entitled to hope.

A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.

No man's plenum, Mr. Quistgaard, is impervious to the awl of God's will.

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

God cannot be found on a microscopic slide, but in the hearts of men.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

Satan is cunning and man is weak, but God rules the heart of his faithful, and does what he will.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.