Quotes About Belief

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

The world is anxiously waiting to see what Jesus Christ can do in, by, for, and through one man wholly given to him - God-led. You can be that man.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

"I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.

If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

God sinks into dust before man.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?

I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.