Quotes About Belief

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.

Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief.

Science is the record of dead religions.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted - and that's what all conditioning is.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.

Non ho alcun preciso sentimento nei riguardi della società, di Dio e dell'uomo, però con tanta maggiore forza amo la vita, la fede e l'amore.

Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing.

Faith in Qur'anic revelation unveils all the possibilities that lie before the human intellect.

To the extent that in one's act of faith one participates in the truth through reason and heart, faith already implies a particular level of knowledge and of certainty.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.