Belief Quotes

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

George Santayana

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.

Henry James

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

John Gunthe

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 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

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