Quotes About Belief

Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.

Daisy Meadows

When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work in the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

There is nothing either good or bad," said Shakespeare, "but thinking makes it so.

Never be bothered by what people say, as long as you know in your heart you are right.

I knew, of course, that I had nothing to worry about—personally, at least. But

If you believe you will fail, there is no hope for you. You will.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?

most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Hay una divinidad que forja nuestros fines, por mucho que queramos alterarlos.

And it might be well to assume and state openly that other people have the virtue you want them to develop. Give them a fine reputation to live up to, and they will make prodigious efforts rather than see you disillusioned.

liberal with your encouragement, make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it—and he will practice until the dawn comes in the window in order to excel.

The price of culture is a Lie.

perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts.

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.

Humanism is not a science, but religion. . . . Humanists like to think they have a rational view of the world; but their core belief in progress is a superstition, further from the truth about the human animal than any of the world's religions. —John Gray, Straw Dogs In

Who cares what the fact was, when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign?

Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

I don't quite know what we're doing on this insignificant cinder spinning away in a dark corner of the universe. That is a secret which the high gods have not confided in me. Yet one thing I believe and I believe it with every fibre of my being. A man must live by his lights and do what little he can and do it as best as he can. In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.