Quotes About Belief

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.

Prayer never changes the laws of nature.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

The nature of faith, I think, is based so much on one's capacity for hope for those whom you love.

Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.

But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.

Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God, our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries.

One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

You can begin feeling whatever you want (even if it's not there).. the universe will correspond to the nature of your song.

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.