We surround ourselves with arbitrary and artificial limitations, and then blame them on the gods.
Believe - Belief Quotes
The thing you believe in always happens… and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
With magnetism, power of uncondensed steam, gravitation, radiant energy of electric waves, equilibrium and activity of atoms, all inscrutable to human eyes, man still cries, “I believe only what I can see.”
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
Believe in it? Hell, I’ve seen it done. (on being asked if he believed in infant baptism)
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.
If the man doesn’t believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can’t burn him.
It is often said in the Bible that God spoke unto Moses, but how do you know that God spake unto Moses? Because, you will say, the Bible says so. The Koran says, ‘that God spake unto Mahomet, do you believe that too? No. Why not? Because, you will say, you do not believe it; […]
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
