Quotes About Belief

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.

Don't be timid when you pray; rather, batter the very gates of heaven with storms of prayer.

I know not by what methods rare, But this I know: God answers prayer. I know not if the blessing sought Will come in just the guise I thought. I leave my prayer to Him alone Whose will is wiser than my own.

I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.

Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublim-est; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.

If we will make use of prayer to call down upon ourselves and others those things which will glorify the name of God, then we shall see the strongest and boldest promises of the Bible about prayer fulfilled. Then we shall see such answers to prayer as we had never thought were possible.

If we pray for anything according to the will of God, we already have what we pray for the moment we ask it. We do not know exactly when it will arrive; but we have learned to know God through the Spirit of God, and have learned to leave this in His hands, and to live just as happily whether the answer arrives immediately or later.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after dark.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

'For example' is not proof.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is.

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

I am an atheist. I don't believe in Zeus.

Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.

Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.