Quotes about Belief
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
— Henry David Thoreau
The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.
— Marianne Williamson
I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.
— Frank Sinatra
You can't have a belief system on Sunday and not live it the other six days.
— David Green
Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.
— Butch Trucks
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson