Quotes About Belief

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.

Except he be willing, man cannot believe.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the natural fruits of man's depraved and frail free-will.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right.

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

When men make gods, there is no God!

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.