Quotes About Belief

Men give their confidence at once, but never their money.

Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

But what an mortal man do to secure his own salvation?" Mortal man can do just what God bids him do. Be can repent and believe. He can arise and follow Christ as Matthew did.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

I'm always telling people who say two men can't make a baby: 'Anything is possible for God. I'm going to keep inseminating my husband and keep my fingers crossed.'

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.