Quotes about Belief

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done.

IT is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try. The more I see of life the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.

Perhaps there are times He trusts us enough to move forward without giving us every little answer.

When God works in our lives, those without faith like to call it chance. Those who believe call it a miracle. I don't know where you land on that scale, but I'm suggesting God is not as distant as you may believe.

Was all this mess just part of God's master plan?

One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

Where the many are, there is security; what the many believe must of course be true; what the many want must be worth striving for, and necessary, and therefore good.

Man can live the most amazing things if they make sense to him. But the difficulty is to create that sense.