Quotes About Belief

In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.

While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

A man trusts his ears less than his eyes.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.

A poor believer [monetarily] certainly is looked down upon in certain churches, and yet he may be the richest man spiritually in that church.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and whose activity have their root in the sentiment of gratitude.

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.

Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Men willingly believe when they want to.

A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.