Belief Quotes

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for' they do not feel like fighting.

~ Eric Hoffer

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity never of the correctness of a belief.

~ Arthur Schnitzler

Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

~ Robert Frost

The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.

~ Alexander Chase

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.

~ Robert Bolton

Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

~ Samuel Johnson

Penetrating so many secrets we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless calmly licking its chops.

~ H. L. Mencken

Believe not your own brother - believe instead your own blind eye.

~ Russian Proverb

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter it's the belief that counts.

~ Robertson Davies

I love an opposition that has convictions.

~ Frederick The Great

Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day.

~ Bertrand Russell

Convictions are the mainsprings of action the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

~ Bishop Francis Kelly

The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

~ William Butler Yeats

(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment or by hating them as convinced men have hated say Darwin and Freud as agents of some devil.

~ John Ciardi

Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest and they are rare.

~ Simone Weil

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

~ William Warburton

Every dogma has its day.

~ Abraham Rotstein

A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

~ Norman Douglas

Every life is a possession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.

~ R. I. Fitzhenry

I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them.

~ Jimmy Hoffa

Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and the temporal.

~ Mary Baker Eddy

Faith sees the invisible believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.

~ Ingeborg Bachmann

Faith is nothing at all tangible. ... It is simply believing God and like sight it is nothing apart from its object. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside and see whether you have sight as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.

~ Hannah Whitall Smith

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.

~ William Newton Clark

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow because science must always test and measure and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

~ Starhawk

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

~ Ralph Hodgson

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

Faith sees the invisible believes the incredible and receives the impossible.

~ Anonymous

A believer a mind whose faith is consciousness is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We walk by faith not by sight.

~ Bible

Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

~ Saint Augustine

Because you cannot see him God is everywhere.

~ Yasunari Kawabata

Sorrow looks back worry looks around faith looks up.

~ Guideposts

You have to believe in gods to see them.

~ Hopi Indian Saying

Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.

~ Blaise Pascal

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not in hand.

~ Saint Thomas Aquinas