Quotes About Belief

There is a paradox here: the purpose of a great number of the things we call 'works of art' was and is religious. But when we encounter them in the circumstances for which they were made our reaction – or at least mine – is to feel awkward, a bit embarrassed at being there under false pretences. This is, perhaps, the mirror image of the bewilderment felt by a true believer at finding a sacred image in a museum, lined up with pictures of landscapes and kitchen tables.

If the war was to be over by Christmas, as many believed, or at the latest by Easter 1915, tens of thousands of soldiers might be killed or wounded before the guns fell silent. Every army believed that it could crush its opponents within a few months.

The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers.

Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one.

truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

Marjorie Luesebrink of Irvine Valley College convinced me I could write fiction at a time when, in retrospect, it's clear

You get ill, you are accused of being mentally ill, denied effective treatment, then when you campaign for 'real science', you are accused of terrorising those who do not believe in your illness...after all, if your message is that people who say they are suffering from ME or CFS are mentally ill, then accusing them of irrational attacks adds strength to your case.

Not one of you has faith until I am dearer to him than his son and his father and all men together." But this utterance of the Prophet was not so much a demand as a confirmation of the rightness of a love that had already been given - a love which found its expression so often in the words: "May my father and my mother be thy ransom.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Be a sinner and sin mightily, but more mightily believe and rejoice in Christ.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.