Quotes About Belief

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

It has been said, "It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn't make sense to be hopeful.

UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head.

the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

Cuanto más viejo me hago más propenso a creer que si el amor ha de juzgarse por sus efectos visibles, se parece más al odio que a la amistad.

Como muchos hombres inteligentes, cree que los demás son idiotas.

Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances.

É um dos grandes erros da pessoa culta: ter como adquirido que, por possuir uma mente sofisticada, possui também emoções sofisticadas".

Paul Hutchens

This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The sky is full of evening's empires, and every one of them is founded on sand.

What you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.

After all, ... your eyes only see what your mind lets you believe.

He is a Christian, and believes charity begins at home. And often it remains there.

The English are a great race,' he told me once. 'But they have a deep down belief that they are the best of all peoples.

The truth on the subject is that communism and atheism are intrinsically related and that one cannot be a good Communist without being an atheist and every atheist is a potential Communist

Apart from God, life is empty and unsatisfying. D

Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. (1:9)

We can trust God to provide what we need, when we need it—and to work out our lives in ways that are better than we ever imagined.

But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control the everyday lives of their people are much harder to sustain.

Highly organized complex societies are delicate machines. It does not take much to bring them to ruin. 'For want of a nail…the kingdom was lost', as the old rhyme has it. Civilizations based on ideology are even more fragile than most. As we know from twentieth-century history, once people stop believing in the system, the end is near; no amount of coercion can keep it going indefinitely.

A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.

This change in religious belief would have dramatic consequences for the world's history, the first stage in a revolution that has made our world of today what it is. It oversaw the move from faith in gods of immanence, spiritual representations of the forces of nature, deities who inhabit the world and wear the natural phenomena they represent like a suit of clothes, to gods of transcendence, deities outside, beyond and above nature rather than part of it.