Quotes About Belief

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him

Man makes god in his own image.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

Every once in a while, a great nation has to deal with a great issue. Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.