belief quotes

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

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

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I believe in being an innovator.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

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

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

God does not play dice.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

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.

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

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

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

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

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.