Quotes about Belief
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
— Abraham Lincoln
I hate when pastors have a gay son and then they become pro-gay.
— Pete Holmes
Without a lot of college film, a lot of people had written me off already. When the Patriots called, I was pretty happy.
— Matt Cassel
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.
— Stephen Colbert
I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and what I know and have learned about as a scientist. I think there's a broad perception that that's the case, and that's what scares many scientists away from a serious consideration of faith.
— Francis Collins
Believe in the doctrine of perfect sanctification attainable in this life.
— Adoniram Judson
He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
— Anne Frank
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
— Brian Tracy
We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately must we believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
— Pope Benedict XVI