Quotes About Belief

wasn't it better to feel that when that chaos engulfed you, there was a benevolent God ready to help you through, rather than the emptiness of an indifferent universe?

Or you could say that human society is denying a basic truth that human beings have verified from the dawn of time, and that in removing themselves from the idea of a Supreme Being, man is moving away from all that is spiritual and moral in the world, all that is spiritual and moral in himself.

There are several ways of looking at this. You could say that mankind is getting smarter, removing itself from superstition and irrationality. Or you could say that human society is denying a basic truth that human beings have verified from the dawn of time, and that in removing themselves from the idea of a Supreme Being, man is moving away from all that is spiritual and moral in the world, all that is spiritual and moral in himself.

She had been brought up to believe in God. To believe in people. To believe that evil didn't really exist, that it was simply an absence of good, the way darkness is an absence of light.

How do they manage to go on living?.....By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That's the true meaning of faith. It's the deepest kind of heroism.

In order to believe someone, you need to trust them.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

History is a myth men want to believe.

What is history but a fable agreed upon ?

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word — faith.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude -- your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle

It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.

The word impossible is not French.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

All religions have been made by men.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.