Quotes about Belief
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge
— Cormac McCarthy
The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
— Elbert Hubbard
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
— George Bernard Shaw
No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
— Oswald Chambers
A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
— Oswald Chambers
It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not willing now, how can you think you shall be willing hereafter?
— Richard Baxter
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
— St. Augustine
Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.
— Mark Twain
A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.
— Mary Baker Eddy
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
— Herman Melville