Quotes About Belief

The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings.

May God even yet deliver us from the sin of loyalty!

Do we as Christians mentally inhabit the world presented to us by faith as the real world?

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

We should never define libertarian positions in terms coined by liberals and conservatives, nor as some variant of their positions. We are not fiscally conservative and socially liberal. We are libertarians, who believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility on all issues at all times.

For the thief and the humanitarian each have the same motive — to do what he believes will make him feel good. In fact, we can't avoid a very significant conclusion: Everyone is selfish.

Winning an argument is of no value. What you want is to win a convert. And people who lose arguments are more likely to beef up their current convictions instead of converting to your way of thinking.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Nothing else matters much -- not wealth, nor learning, nor even health -- without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Men are given to complaining of unanswered prayer, but the great disasters are due to answered prayers.

There is one sense, however, in which answer to prayer can always be depended on, if a man has kept his life at all in harmony with God. Even when God cannot answer affirmatively the man's petition he can answer the man.

There are many prayers that God must not answer, but there are no good prayers which God cannot answer.

the prayer of dominant desire always tends to attain its object.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

Civilizations... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of mistaken beliefs.

They should know that just because things get difficult, it's no reason to believe God is on vacation.

Tell her the three keys to wisdom: not believing all you hear, not spending all you have, and not sleeping all you want. These will be difficult for her until she graduates from college.

Like you, my boy, I am a Scientific Humanist and feel no need for the aid of the supernatural.

What the eyes see and the ears hear the mind believes