Quotes About Belief

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

God is for men, and religion for women.

Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.

It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad.

I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark.

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.