Quotes about Belief

One arrives at metaphysics, at a philosophy of religion, only if from another source one has gained the certainty that religion is not just an interesting phenomenon—comparable to belief in witches and ghosts—but truth, the truth that God exists, reveals himself, and is knowable.

In case a dogma is not based on divine authority, it is wrong to call it by that name, and it should not have a place in the faith of the church.

Openly or secretly all turn back to an inborn disposition, to a religio insita.

All religion is supernatural, and rests upon the presupposition that God is distinct from the world and yet works in the world.

Atheism is not proper to man by nature, but develops at a later stage of life, on the ground of philosophical reflection; like scepticism, it is an intellectual and ethical abnormality, which only confirms the rule. By nature every man believes in God.

No psychology of religion can teach us what conversion is and ought to be; the Scriptures alone can tell us that.

If there is no infallible Scripture "there can exist only a subjective and purely individual notion of what belongs to Christian faith." All ways are good, if they but lead to faith — not to what is contained in faith, for this differs endlessly.

Without faith in the existence, the revelation, and the knowability of God, no religion is possible.

Metaphysics, the belief in the absolute as a holy power, always forms the foundation of ethics.

The plan of salvation in the Christian religion determines the method of Christian theology.

Even where the Faith is preserved men pursue wealth and power inordinately. Where the Faith is lost they pursue nothing else.

He served his god so faithfully and well That now he sees him face to face in hell.