Quotes about Belief

He believes in No-God, and he worships him," said a colleague of mine of a student who was manifesting a fine atheistic ardor; and the more fervent opponents of Christian doctrine have often enough shown a temper which, psychologically considered, is indistinguishable from religious zeal.

I will assume for the present---until next year---that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Through prayer, religion insists, things which cannot be realized in any other manner come about: energy which but for prayer would be bound is by prayer set free and operates in some part, be it objective or subjective, of the world of facts.

Act as if what you do makes a difference, it does.

He believes in No-God, and he worships him

It matters not to an empiricist from what quarter an hypothesis may come to him: he may have acquired it by fair means or by foul; passion may have whispered or accident suggested it; but if the total drift of thinking continues to confirm it, that is what he means by its being true.

The life of religion consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.

The life of religion consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.