Quotes About Belief

How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.

Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use.

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.

The secret of true happiness lies within unwavering devotion to God

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.

Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling

Don't believe everything you think.

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.

Love is God, and the one that believes in love, believes in God.

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.