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Quotes About Belief

I feel religion is basically and essentially a communication between a man and his God and I think it is the most personal thing of all and I don't think it concerns too many people.
~ Pierre Trudeau
Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
~ Plato
I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
~ Orson Scott Card
Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
~ Oscar Wilde
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
~ Rachel Cusk
There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
~ Rajneesh
I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.
~ Ram Dass
We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.
~ Raymond Khoury
A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.
~ Richard Whately
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.
~ Richard Whately
Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.
~ Richard Yates
Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are moments when we have to turn to Christ and endure.
~ Robert D. Hales
No man can be convinced when he will not.
~ Robert E. Howard
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.
~ Robert Hurt
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
~ H. L. Mencken