Quotes About Belief

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.

My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.

It was man who first made men believe in gods.

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than sick men's dreams.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.

What is impossible with men is possible with God.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Tell people an invisible man in the sky created all things, they believe you. Tell them what you've painted is wet, they have to touch it to believe.

To the man of faith, there is not a thing that is not opportunity.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."