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Quotes About Belief

I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.
~ Rod Serling
No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.
~ Xenophanes
I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27).
~ Ray Comfort
Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.
~ Karl Jaspers
Most men are not scolded out of their opinion.
~ Martin Van Buren
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
~ Thomas Paine
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.
~ Charles Darwin
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.
~ Frances Wright
A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
~ Walter Bagehot
The man who walks with God always gets to his destination.
~ Henrietta Mears
Shallow men believe in luck.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Does the Lord intend to make man happy? Sure... but it's a byproduct, not a prime product.
~ Paris Reidhead
Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.
~ C. S. Lewis
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
~ Francis Bacon
An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.
~ Orlando Aloysius Battista
When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.
~ Vilfredo Pareto
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr