Belief Quotes
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.Thomas Paine
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.William James
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.Henry Besseme
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.Joseph Conrad
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
The Godless would deny and destroy human rights.... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.U. S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.Frank Lloyd Wright
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.John Gunthe
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.Robert Ingersoll, ? What Must We Do To Be Saved?? (1880)
There is danger in both belief and unbelief.Phaedrus
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.Charles Robert Darwin
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.Robert Oxton Bolt
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.James Truslow Adams
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.Samuel Butle
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.A. Huxley, Island
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.Margaret Atwood
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.Janet Jackson
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.Rainer Maria Rilke
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.Richard Adams
God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.William James
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.Frank Lloyd Wright
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.Oscar Wilde
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.John Schumake
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.Harry S Truman
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.Kent Nerburn
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.Tom Robbins
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.Max Born
Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.Peggy Noonan
The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.George Walker Bush
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.Ambrose Bierce
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.James Thurbe
