Quotes About Belief

A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]

As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

Prefer not the esteem of men to the approbation of God.

If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

My mom made me think I was gorgeous. When I was younger she was like, 'Look at you! You're an angel. You sparkle!' And I was like, 'I do!' You believe your parents.

My mom reminds me that all things are possible.

When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.

My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.