Quotes About Belief

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.

Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy.

I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.

My connection to Santa Fe is very closely, and continuously a connection with Reid. I believe in him and his philosophy of photographic education.