Quotes About Belief

Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Nil tam certum quam quod ex dubio certum. Shaking settles and roots.

If our faith were but as firm as our state in Christ is secure and glorious, what manner of men should we be ?

I wouldn't kill your pony. I'd like to believe it, anyway. I'd like to believe I wouldn't drag you out in to the woods and leave you there, either. So far, it hasn't come up.

I am singing now while Rome burns. We are all just trying to be holy.

The best part of spirituality is reverence. There are other parts. Some people like to hear the sound of their own voice. If you don't believe in the world it would be stupid to paint it. If you don't believe in God, then who are you talking to?

It's hard to talk about what you believe while you are believing it. Fervor reduces thought to shorthand and all we get is an icon.

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you're happy and believe in yourself.

A TV preacher, you know those guys? Evangelists." "I thought they were all in jail," Parker said.

An author, when he first appears in the world, is very apt to believe it has nothing to think of but his Performances.

Mother of God!" "That was my thought, or the Presbyterian equivalent thereof.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

Most people lie about small things but would be afraid to lie about big things. But manipulators know that if you insist on a lie long enough, many people will believe you — especially if you have the resources of mass media to air your lie. All skilled manipulators are focused on what you can get people to believe, not on what is true or false. They know that the human mind does not naturally seek the truth; it seeks comfort, security, personal confirmation and vested interest. In

Everything we know, believe, want, fear, and hope for, our thinking tells us. It follows, then, that the quality of our thinking is the primary determinant of the quality of our lives.

there is one thing we all take from granted: from hunter-gatherers to the Pope, we all live by a moral compass.

People often expect religious believers to act in especially prosocial ways, which they often do, but religiosity is not always a predictor or moral kindness.

Pride, ideology, or belief restrains many people from viewing Homo Sapiens as just another primate species, one among many.

We were taught to be God-fearing," my mother said. "One who loves does not brandish fear or require it.

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men; - I believe that he who once has bathed in the sublime delights of this high Art, is consecrate to Her for ever, and never can deny Her; - I believe that through Art all men are saved.

Imagination creates reality.

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Dennis Prager, the conservative Jewish thinker, noted that the lie is easily debunked. Because the core tenet of the Nazis is a desire to kill Jews, no serious person could believe that Donald Trump, the father and father-in-law of a Jewish couple (the Kushners) and the grandfather of Jewish grandchildren, would consider Nazis to be 'fine people'.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?