Quotes About Belief

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

God... God...dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God...

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

The theories of men changed from day to day. Much that is taught new will tomorrow be in the discard, but the word of the Lord will endure forever.

I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.

Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital mistake of distinguishing between good and evil.

When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!

A man should believe in God through faith, not because of miracles.

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

Ideology is a virus.

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.

you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...

Being right does not always bring satisfaction

That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: it made people feel better when really horrible things happened, and it offered a repertoire of ceremonies that were used to add a touch of class to such goings-on as shacking up with someone and throwing dirt on a corpse. None of which especially bothered Zula or made her doubt its worthwhileness. Making sad people feel better was a fine thing to do.