belief quotes

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

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.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

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.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

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

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

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

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 any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

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

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

God helps those who help themselves.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.