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Quotes About Belief

Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white.
~ William Blake
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
~ William Blake
He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.
~ William Blake
thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
~ William Blake
The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please. - Auguries of Innocence
~ William Blake
Vision is the end of religion.
~ William Blake
Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.
~ William Blake
I live by Miracle.
~ William Blake
I live in a hole here but God has a beautiful mansion for me elsewhere.
~ William Blake
All deities reside in the human breast.
~ William Blake
The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that wont Believe The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the Unbelievers fright
~ William Blake
Hapishaneler Hukukun ta?lar?yla in?a edilir, Kerhaneler Dinin tu?lalar?yla
~ William Blake
Every Night & every Morn Some to Misery are Born Every Morn and every Night Some are Born to sweet delight Some are Born to sweet delight Some are Born to Endless Night We are led to Believe a Lie When we see not Thro the Eye Which was Born in a Night to perish in a Night When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light God Appears & God is Light To those poor Souls who dwell in Night But does a Human Form Display To those who Dwell in Realms of day
~ William Blake
All great artists are doubters.
~ William Boyd
Romer's idea, like all good ideas, was very simple: false information can be just as useful, influential, as telling, transforming or as damaging as true information.
~ William Boyd
Old Testament prophets. 'You savvy dis fetish thing?
~ William Boyd
It's funny how, sometimes, one can be so convinced, so utterly certain, about something as entirely fickle as strong emotion
~ William Boyd
Up to then, neither Mother nor Pop had any immediate church connections, but used to meet with a few others at spiritualistic seances, sometimes at home, sometimes elsewhere around the block. A prime mover in this form of religious service was old man Demarest, a devout believer. The chief tenet of these earnest persons was that the dead did live as spirits about us and would come or could be called to us at certain times by prayer or otherwise. There were curious consequences.
~ William Carlos Williams
Why will mankind be fools, and be deceived? And why are friends' and lovers' oaths believed; When each, who searches strictly his own mind, May so much fraud and power of baseness find?
~ William Congreve
How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing could happen to others, but not to them. That is the way!
~ William Dean Howells
Yes, Murray Rothbard believed in freedom, and yes, David Koresh believed in God.
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
What did Miss Rand in was her anxiety to theologize her beliefs. She was an eloquent and persuasive antistatist, and if only she had left it at that—but no, she had to declare that God did not exist, that altruism was despicable, that only self-interest is good and noble. She risked, in fact, giving to capitalism that bad name that its enemies have done so well in giving it; and that is a pity.
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
But is God a Yale man?
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
~ William Faulker