Quotes about Belief
True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
— Philip James Bailey
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.
— Phillips Brooks
Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.
— RC Sproul
God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?
— RC Sproul Jr.
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.
— Richard Sibbes
Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
— Samuel Johnson
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.
— Thomas Paine
So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
— William Barclay
If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.
— Leymah Gbowee