Quotes about Belief
He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
— Florence Nightingale
You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.
— G Campbell Morgan
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.
— George Bernard Shaw
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
— George Eliot
No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks His aid more necessary.
— George Washington
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.
— Hannah More
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
— Henry David Thoreau
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.
— Henry David Thoreau
How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.
— Henry Parry Liddon
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
— Henry Ward Beecher