belief quotes

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

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

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

I believe in singing.

Beto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I have to be seen to be believed.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.