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Quotes About Belief

We are all capable of much more than we think we are.
~ Laozi
Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.
~ Carl Rogers
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
~ Albert Camus
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible
~ Calvin Coolidge
Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
~ Barbara Walters
It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.
~ Ian MacKaye
The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.
~ Victor J. Stenger
I'm into humanity. I don't believe in God, but I believe in human beings.
~ Eddie Izzard
There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested.
~ Nelson Mandela
humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.
~ Angela Merkel
I would say, in humanity, there is some unbreakable element that makes us so special, and I would call that hope or a belief in something better. It's something that drives us.
~ Richard Sammel
I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.
~ Stockard Channing
When you lack the awareness of being God you make everything impossible. Wow! Stop living in your humanity and start living in your divinity.
~ E. Bernard Jordan
The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
~ Ellen Key
Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
~ Eric Maisel
What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.
~ Patrick Stewart
I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .
~ Elie Wiesel
If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending
~ William Loren Katz
If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.
~ Marianne Williamson
I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.
~ Eugene H. Peterson