Quotes About Belief

Do you think you're the only one groping? We're all in the dark together. Wait until God please to clear the sky.

Where there was life, there was also hope.

All those who seek truth, seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it and cherishing the thought that she was worthy of it.

The whole truth? Miss Bart laughed. What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. In this case it's a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset's story than mine, because she has a big house and an opera box, and it's convenient to be on good terms with her

Algumas mulheres são fortes o bastante para acreditarem nelas mesmas, mas eu precisei da sua ajuda para acreditar em mim. Talvez eu tenha resistido a uma grande tentação, mas foram as pequenas que acabaram me derrubando.

Well—it had all grown out of the other choice she had made when, years ago, she had said: "Thy gods shall not be my gods." And now she but dimly guessed who their gods were. At the moment when her very life depended on her knowing their passwords, holding the clue to their labyrinth, she stood outside the mysterious circle and vainly groped for a way in.

What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe.

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe.

As long ago as Pythagoras, man was taught that all things were in a state of flux, without end as without beginning, and must we still, after more than two thousand years, pretend to regard the universe as some gigantic toy manufactured in six days by a Superhuman Artisan, who is presently to destroy it at his pleasure?

He went on to praise the company they had just left, declaring that he knew no better way for a young man to form his mind than by frequenting the society of men of conflicting views and equal capacity. "Nothing," said he, "is more injurious to the growth of character than to be secluded from argument and opposition; as nothing is healthier than to be obliged to find good reasons for one's beliefs on pain of surrendering them.

I read the other day in a book by a fashionable essayist that ghosts went out when electric light came in. What nonsense!

He had to the full the courage of his lack of convictions.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; . . . atheism is against, not only our reason but our instincts.

It is no strange thing, to those who look into the nature of corrupted man, to find a violent persecutor a perfect unbeliever of his own creed.

I should imagine, that the influence of reason in producing our passions is nothing near so extensive as it is commonly believed.

I believe that many of the boys have a lurking fear that their parents will disgrace them in some fashion.

It's hard to evaluate the validity of a belief you're scarcely aware of—you just accept it as is.

It is idle to hope for the enforcement of a law where nineteen-twentieths of the people do not believe in the justice of its provisions.

Conservatives, he said, "are taught to believe that change means destruction. They are wrong.… Life means change; where there is no change, death comes.

Much like to the mole in Æsopes fable, that, being blynd her selfe, would in no wise be perswaded that any beast could see.