Quotes About Belief

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think.

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

Man has never been the same since God died.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks His aid more necessary.

I don't believe in God. I believe in man -- in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.