Quotes About Belief

The principle part of faith is patience.

The principal part of faith is patience.

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong

Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters;

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them

While all this goes on, the English remain staunch believers in equality. Equality is a notion the English have given to humanity. Equality means that you are just as good as the next man but the next man is not half as good as you are.

No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume it is true and try to imagine what it might be true of.

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Self esteem is the dough that makes us rise to the top, or fall to the bottom of the heap ~ Tiffani S. Hall, American Poet & Writer

I think there is no light in the world but the world and I think there is light

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.

I'm not being pessimistic at all. I think God will eventually destroy this technological civilization. I'm very optimistic about that.