Quotes About Belief

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

I think if more people would understand how simple and what really feminism is, I would imagine that most men I know are feminists without verbalising or saying so.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

In magic, man has to rely on himself. So, in religion, of course, you're looking for outside support but that's the appeal of magic.

Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.