Quotes About Belief

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

— Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience.  I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

— Madeleine L’Engle

Man is what he believes.

— Anton Chekhov

We have to believe in free will.  We’ve got no choice.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

— Samuel Johnson

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I’d rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

— Tallulah Bankhead

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

— Robert Bolton

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

— Robertson Davies

If God be for us, who can be against us?

— Romans 8:31

I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God.

— Job 19:25-26

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

— Oscar Wilde

Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.

— Genesis 28:16

I would not say I believe.  I know!  I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

— Carl Jung

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

They conquer who believe they can.

— John Dryden

I am proud of the revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought...the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but the hands of God.

— John F. Kennedy

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

— George Bernard Shaw

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

— Aldous Huxley

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

— Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Any man’s a crowd who won’t die for what he believes.

— Chester Bomar Himes