Quotes About Belief

No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

Oh yet we trust that somehow goodWill be the final goal of ill.

Man's word is God in man.

Believing where we cannot prove.

More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voiceRise like a fountain for me night and day.

I know that age to age succeeds,Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds,A dust of systems and of creeds.

Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

In my preface, I quoted an e-mail message from someone who was upset by the news that neuroscientists had shown that free will is an illusion. She was, she said, "in a lot of despair." My final moral is the title of a song: "Don't Worry, Be Happy." Scientists have not shown this. Nor has anyone shown that there are no effective intentions. This is good news for just about everyone.

No todo lo que lleva habitó es santa rosa

He was a man in whom the dreams of God that haunt the soul in youth, though overlaid by the scum that gathers in the fight for money, had not, as with the majority, utterly died the death. - Secret Worship

You know," he went on almost under his breath, "every man who thinks for himself and feels vividly finds he lives in a world of his own, apart, and believes that one day he'll come across, either in a book or in a person, the Priest who shall make it clear to him.

So convinced was he that the external world was the result of a vast deception practised upon him by the gross senses, that when he stared at a great building like St. Paul's he felt it would not very much surprise him to see it suddenly quiver like a shape of jelly and then melt utterly away, while in its place stood all at once revealed the mass of colour, or the great intricate vibrations, or the splendid sound—the spiritual idea—which it represented in stone.

Death, according to one's belief, means either annihilation or release from the limitations of the senses, but it involves no change of character. You don't suddenly alter just because the body's gone.

For according to his beliefs there was no Chance, and could be no ultimate shirking, and to avoid a problem was merely to waste time and lose opportunities for development.

Of course it was nonsense, but then it haunted him, and once an idea begins to do that it ceases to be nonsense. It has clothed itself in reality.

he found all religions uninteresting because, almost without exception, they start from the present and speculate ahead as to what men shall become, instead of looking back and speculating why men have got here as they are.

What one thinks finds expression in words, and what one says, happens.

And each, believing he was utterly and finally right, damned with equally positive conviction the rest of the world.

We are not sure of sorrow,And joy was never sure.

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

The one who performs a deed and his heart does not believe in that deed, Allah will not accept any of his practices - but that it be along with the sincerity of intention.