Quotes About Belief

A Christian is the highest style of man.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.

When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.

My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.