Quotes About Belief

The One true God may be compared unto the sun and the believer unto a mirror. No sooner is the mirror placed before the sun than it reflects its light. The unbeliever may be likened unto a stone. No matter how long it is exposed to the sunshine, it cannot reflect the sun.

There is no paradise more wondrous for any soul than to be exposed to Gods Manifestation in His Day, to hear His verses and believe in them, to attain His presence, which is naught but the presence of God, to sail upon the sea of the heavenly kingdom of His good-pleasure, and to partake of the choice fruits of the paradise of His divine Oneness.

I swear by God, the Peerless, the Incomparable, the True One: for no other reason hath He the supreme Testimony of God invested Me with clear signs and tokens than that all men may be enabled to submit to His Cause.

unhappy Catholics should just become Protestants.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common - they don't change their views to fit the facts. They change the facts to fit their views

There is nothing in the world that we can count on, even that we will wake up is an assumption

Faith is the strength that keeps you moving forward for better day

Life is a journey we embark on, some find it easy and some find it rocky only faith can define your accomplishment.

Reading by itself is certainly not sufficient to breed wistfulness; a natural-born peculiarity of wisdom ought to exist in one's very brain cells, and reflected on his very deep beliefs and thoughts..

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Thus, from the very outset, and in typically effusive fashion, did Marion Crawford set out the thesis that characterizes her celebrated, indeed notorious, book, The Little Princesses. By contrasting the sterling qualities of the future Queen with her younger sister's more capricious personality, Crawfie gave authority to what – by the time of the book's publication in 1950 – many people already believed.

While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

If you will it, it is not a fable.

T]he sacred sense of right and the reverence for the law, which it is difficult to destroy in the minds of the multitude, it is still more difficult to reproduce.

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

And will you succeed? Yes you will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)"

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

Une philosophie transformée devrait casser cette prétention, ne plus faire croire à elle-même et aux autres qu'elle dispose de l'infini. Mais au lieu de cela c'est elle qui, subtilement comprise deviendrait infinie dans la mesure où elle dédaignerait de se fixer dans un corpus de théorèmes dénombrables.

The undiminished irrationality of rational society encourages people to elevate religion into an end in itself, without regard to its content: to view religion as a mere attitude, as a quality of subjectivity. All this at the cost of religion itself. One needs only to be a believer—no matter what he believes in.

I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.

Years later it is common for it to be thought that the possession of an opinion on a subject, which is active, is deemed more important than having any information on that subject, which is passive; and that the vehemence (feeling) with which an opinion is held is more important than the facts (knowledge) upon which it is based.