Quotes About Belief

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

Faith is a gateway to happiness that remains permanently accessible to each of us, wherever we are, no matter our circumstances.

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.

I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American in every community has the right to pursue happiness.

I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

If you want to be happy, you will be.

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.

Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.

I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

We simply want to follow God because we knows of the happiness it will bring, that's the reason that we chose to be open about our beliefs.

America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.