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Quotes About Belief

...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.
~ Adolf Hitler
It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.
~ Maimonides
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
~ Joseph Conrad
Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.
~ Robert Payne
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.
~ Saint Augustine
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
~ Anatole France
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
~ William James
Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.
~ Herbert V. Prochnow
The truthful man is usually a liar.
~ Alfred Nobel
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
~ William Blake
You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.
~ Anjem Choudary
Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.
~ Thomas Merton
Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
~ R. C. Sproul
The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.
~ Robert W. Service
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.
~ Octavio Paz
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
~ John Quincy Adams
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side... Whereas the Christian view is pressed on him day in and day out.
~ Margaret E. Knight
Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.
~ Robert Vaughn
Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.
~ Mark Twain
My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.
~ Hannah More
I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.
~ Mike Singletary