Quotes About Belief

I'm more of a man than any liberal.

Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.

All men are Jews, though few men know it.

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.

He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.

All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.

Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool.

A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe only one thing: that by his act he will change the course of history.

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.