Quotes About Belief

In God we trust; all others must bring data.

In God we trust. All others [must] have data.

If thou must chooseBetween the chances, choose the odd;Read the New Yorker; trust in God;And take short views.

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

To us he is no more a personNow but a whole climate of opinion.

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

We now have unshakable conviction that accident causes are man-made and that a manmade problem can be solved by men and women.

True repentance says, "I cannot," and true faith adds, "But God, You can!

There are two sorts of people with whom you can never win an argument: those who base their belief on absolute faith, and those who know something by experience.

Sikhs, however, should not allow the belief that God is immanent within humanity or nature to become pantheism or to say that any created being is God.

Tera (13) is a lucky number for Sikhs (though, as with other people who believe in God, luck should have no place in their thinking). Tera also means 'yours'.

If you build it, he will come.

Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us.

This teaching is similar to the statement of William Perkins: "The desire for grace is an evidence of grace.

What directors, authors, comic artists, and even game designers want is to hit the audience with a cultural roundhouse. There's no way to do that effectively without pushing political buttons to overstimulate the most delicate nerve endings of personal belief, ideology, patriotism, gender roles, and unexamined hatreds.

Robert Boyle, the English scientist largely responsible for the creation of the modern discipline of chemistry, interviewed miners in the 1670s in an attempt to discover whether the men had met with any "subterraneous demons . . . in what shape and manner they appear; what they portend and what they do.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

Where there is nothing, there is God.

I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English. ("The Adoration of The Magi")

Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet. BELIEF

Jerome. That is a terribly wild thought. I hope you don't believe all you say. Paul Ruttledge. Perhaps not. I only know that I want to upset everything about me. Have you not noticed that it is a complaint many of us have in this country? and whether it comes from love or hate I don't know, they are so mixed together here.