Quotes About Belief

A man who has faith is somebody who can be saved.

When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasnt the slightest intention of putting it in practice.

Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.

It is certainly true that most men need some kind of a God. A few, and they are the men of genius, do not bow to an alien law. The rest try to justify their doings and misdoings, their thinking and existence (at least the menial side of it), to some one else, whether it be the personal God of the Jews, or a beloved, respected, and revered human being. It is only in this way that they can bring their lives under the social law.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.

PASO DOS Llegamos a creer de que sólo un Poder Superior a nosotros mismos podría devolvernos el sano juicio.

Whatever the case, after years of making vows and saying prayers but then eating compulsively again, we were left without faith that God could restore us to sanity about food. We believed intellectually that God could do anything, but deep in our hearts we "knew" God couldn't help us with this area of our lives. It was this negative concept about God we had to change if we were to find recovery.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe ' three times.

The gods have their own rules.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Therefore it is only people living in the same period and, broadly speaking, in the same community, who inhabit the same world. People living in other periods, or even at the same period but in a totally different community, do not inhabit the same world about which they have different ideas, they inhabit different worlds altogether.

It was a question of steering Christian dogma between the Scylla of pantheism and the Charybdis of materialism and its logical conclusion, scepticism.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

In most societies, organized religion provides a culturally acceptable framework for rationalizing the continuance of magical thinking.

To give another person the benefit of the doubt was about as difficult an everyday task as anyone faced.

You don't have to believe in God to do the programme. You just have to accept that there's a higher power – it could be the lamp in the corner of the room, for all they care. Some people use nature, the ocean, their d**k – whatever comes to mind.

When I was growing up, no one ever recovered from cancer. I mean, the doc would always tell you it was survivable, but everyone knew that was just bullshit to calm you down.

There's a sucker born every minute.

Was there any meaning to the life he had led? Not even that did he believe in. But this was something he knew nothing about. It was not for him to judge.