Quotes about Belief
A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
— John Calvin
A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous...
— John Calvin
Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.
— John Calvin
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.
— John Donne
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.
— John Donne
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
— John Donne
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
— John Donne
No man ever saw God and lived; and yet, I shall not live till I see God; and when I have seen him I shall never die
— John Donne
Let me not therefore, O my God, be ashamed of these fears, but let me feel them to determine where his fear did, in a present submitting of all to thy will.
— John Donne
Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives.
— Dennis Prager
Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of Moses are inspired. Call it divine. I don't know. But I would certainly call it inspired.
— Elie Wiesel