Quotes About Belief

Burn? Smite? Punish? Why is your god so intolerant? So jealous? Why must there be only one god? Why is there not room for many?

Jesus Christ, being 2000 years old and some change, is a relatively "new" god of the older god category - and has done quite well for himself, in terms of worship.

God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality.

Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important.

I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

God won't give you more than you can handle.'" Holiday chuckled. "And we just wish He didn't trust us so much, right?

Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.

We don't require luck," said Will, "we have a heavenly mandate, after all. With God on your side, what does luck matter?

I called out to God, but the devil keeps answering.

If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.

They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.

It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.

Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.

I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.

The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!

It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.