Belief Quotes

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.

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

Sorrow looks back worry looks around faith looks up.

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.

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding ... the invisible in the visible.

Leo Baeck

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

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

Robertson Davies

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

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.

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

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

Russian proverb

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.

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.

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.

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.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Lynwood L. Giacomini

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.

Bible

Genuine blasphemy genuine in spirit and not purely verbal is the product of partial belief and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

T.S Eliot

I believe in the gods. Or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us I believe they are completely absent-minded.

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause but what they say about their opponents.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

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.

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

Alexander Chase

Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.

Clementine Paddleford

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

L. J. Cardinal Suenens

One advantage of marriage it seems to me is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

You can't try to do things you simply must do them.

I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

William Lloyd Garrison

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think "I want to make this movie " it'll never get made.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

Katherine Mansfield

I am a stranger to half measures.

Perform without fail what you resolve.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing's far when one wants to get there.

Queen Marie of Rumania

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might.

Bible

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind with a faint heart and with a lame endeavor.

Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.

Saint Margaret of Cortona

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