Quotes About Belief

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

All men have need of the gods.

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.

Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

And men my prophet wail deride!

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.

It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.

For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.

Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.

I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.

Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.

The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.

It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.

A critic is a man who expects miracles.

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."