belief Quotes

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

Love is a credulous thing.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.