Quotes About Belief

And so it is sometimes when I sing that the notes come from me as if I believed I could reach them where they rest, they sure of a reunion I still cannot imagine or believe in except, sometimes, in song.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

we are not always sure that those who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than their antagonists.

Opinion, whether well or ill founded, is the governing principle of human affairs.

Stand for something, or you'll fall for anything" Malcolm X, likely quoting Hamilton

We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.

I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.

Se è estremamente improbabile, infatti, che esista qualcosa di soprannaturale, è certo altrettanto difficile dimostrare che il soprannaturale non esiste. Gli eventi naturali dell'esistenza e quelli inesplicabili sembrano in realtà combinarsi in un unico mitico processo, che costituisce il vero e proprio spettacolo del mondo. Comunque, negare l'esistenza dell'ignoto non è più legittimo che farne l'oggetto di un atto di fede.

Sebbene, come tutti a quei tempi, non credessero in Dio, erano però, come tutti, superstiziosi. Della fede si può dubitare quanto si vuole, ma della superstizione si è convinti.

below the hopelessness is faith, under the sorrow is joy, and beneath the spastic pelvic floor is the genital apparatus and the way to freedom.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.

One man, with God to back him, is always in the majority.

The Gospel is the savour of life unto life, or of death unto death. The same fire melts wax and hardens clay. The same Christ is salvation and destruction. God is to each of us either our joy or our dread. II.

He that loves and trusts God possesses God. He that possesses God has enough for earth. He that possesses God has enough for heaven.

The opening trick to becoming is to convince yourself that you already are

I think cynicism is more enduring than sentimentality.

'Tis with our judgments as our watches, noneGo just alike, yet each believes his own.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night,But always think the last opinion right.