Quotes About Belief

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of -- the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

Put your trust in God but be sure to keep your powder dry.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

The united voice of millions cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway,And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

There is another future quite different from it, which is the future we imagine, prompted by fears or hopes or lazy presumptions of regularity. Such projected futures are easy enough to construct in imagination, but ontologically they are shallow; they make little claim on our belief — even though they often market themselves at astonishingly high prices!

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.

Authentic religion is not a theology test. It's a love test.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.