Quotes About Belief

No man ever quite believes in any other man.

There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

What governs men is the fear of truth.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and important of the question.

While the new Legionnaire man eliminated his enemies in the name of God, with a cross in his hand, the new Communist man eliminated God altogether and stood on His pedestal. They were both equally thirsty for blood.

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

My technique is don't believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

Faith in our own talent is the gravity, the force that keeps us in orbit around the potential of our own passions and ideas, even when we are temporarily marooned on the dark side of the moon.

Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. ~Sir Bannor

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

Not a fig shall I care then for all the devils in hell: it is they who will fear me. I do not understand these fears. "Oh, the devil, the devil!" we say, when we might be saying "God! God!" and making the devil tremble. Of course we might, for we know he cannot move a finger unless the Lord permits it. Whatever are we thinking of? I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.