Quotes about Belief

Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is.

All those who seek truth, seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.

There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it and cherishing the thought that she was worthy of it.

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is truth?

and I know how names can alter the colour of beliefs.

What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; . . . atheism is against, not only our reason but our instincts.

It is no strange thing, to those who look into the nature of corrupted man, to find a violent persecutor a perfect unbeliever of his own creed.

Before the Christian religion had, as it were, humanized the idea of the divinity, and brought it somewhat nearer to us, there was very little said of the love of God.

Part of the depressive syndrome is that you are immensely loyal to your interpretation of yourself and your world. If God says you are forgiven in Christ, you create new rules that mandate contrition, penance, and self-loathing. If God says he loves you, you insist it is impossible. There it is: your system is higher than God's.

It is as if we want to believe the lie. Perhaps we blame ourselves because in a strange way it helps us feel as if we have more control. If we are responsible for whatever went wrong, for whatever hurt us, we might be able to figure out how to keep it from happening again.