Quotes About Belief

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

Man plans. God laughs.

I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that binds you to the prophet of God, and sink yourselves to hell.

I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor.

Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.

It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.

The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.

Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.