Quotes about Belief

The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.

Through our combined efforts the kids received your everyday heartland upbringing, based on the same old bedrock values: a belief in the importance of hard work, honesty, neighborliness, and thrift.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

may, notwithstanding, be questioned whether, except his bible, he ever read a book entirely through. Late in life, if any man praised a book in his presence, he was sure to ask, "Did you read it through?" If the answer was in the affirmative, he did not seem willing to believe it.

Self-confidence if the first requisite to great unertakings. - On Alexander Pope

I was not born for courts or great affairs;I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers.Pope.

ALLEGER  (ALLE'GER)   n.s.[from allege.]He that alleges. Which narrative, if we may believe it as confidently as the famous alleger of it, Pamphilio, appears to do, would seem to argue, that there is, sometimes, no other principle requisite, than what may result from the lucky mixture of the parts of several bodies.Boyle.

I had learned that every circumstance in life doesn't have to end happily for the Lord to provide a happy ending.

and so he could show me how much my life was controlled by fear.

Without Christ, the world was a joyless place and any place where he remains unknown and unaccepted is a joyless place. Everything has changed since Christ's birth yet everything remains to be changed as people come to receive the child in faith.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

the Catholic Church possesses one and the same faith throughout the whole world.