Quotes about Belief
It has hindered where it might have helped; it has been evasive when it was morally bound to be forthright; it has separated believers on the basis of color, although it has declared its mission to be a universal brotherhood under Jesus Christ. Christian love is the white man's love for himself and for his race.
— Malcolm X
Standing there by that Harvard window, I silently vowed to Allah that I never would forget that any wings I wore had been put on by the religion of Islam. That fact I never have forgotten . . . not for one second
— Malcolm X
I simply refused to believe.
— Malcolm X
It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.
— Malcolm X
To change your experience, change your opinion. If you're upset by something outside you, it's not the thing itself that upsets you, but your opinion of it. And it's in your power to wipe away that opinion immediately.
— Marcus Aurelius
The freedom to do only what God wants, and accept whatever God sends us.
— Marcus Aurelius
A prudent governor will not roughly oppose even the superstitions of his people; and though he may wish that they were wiser, he will know that he cannot make them so by offending their prejudices.
— Marcus Aurelius
Whatsoever he said, all men believed him that as he spake, so he thought, and whatsoever he did, that he did it with a good intent.
— Marcus Aurelius
In a word, if there is a god, all is well; and if chance rules, do not thou also be governed by it.
— Marcus Aurelius
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just. Then they will not care how devout you have been. But will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods then you will be gone but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of the loves ones.
— Marcus Aurelius
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
— Marcus Aurelius
A man of faith is also full of courage
— Cicero