Quotes About Belief

Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.

The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

Men see what they expect to see.

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

I believe that freedom is a gift from an Almighty to every man, woman, and child; that is a principle that was important to me during my presidency and I think it's an important principle.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

Man, sometimes God really sucks.