belief quotes

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout’s obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

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.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

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.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

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.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

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

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

The less you know, the more you believe.

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.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.