Quotes about Belief
What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.
— Elbert Hubbard
Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.
— Euripides
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
— Francois Rabelais
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
— George Bernard Shaw
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
— George Eliot
I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.
— George Eliot
I believe that freedom is a gift from an Almighty to every man, woman, and child; that is a principle that was important to me during my presidency and I think it's an important principle.
— George W. Bush
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
— GK Chesterton
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle.
— GK Chesterton
Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
— GK Chesterton
Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.
— GK Chesterton