The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

The less you know, the more you believe.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

I have to be seen to be believed.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.