Quotes about Faith, page 5

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about faith

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about faith

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Quote by Iulius Cezar about faith

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Quote by Iulius Cezar about faith

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Quote by Iulius Cezar about faith

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Quote by Iulius Cezar about faith

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Quote by Iulius Cezar about faith

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about faith

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about faith

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about faith

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about faith

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Quote by Albert Camus about faith

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about faith

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Quote by Albert Camus about faith

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and nobody in his right mind will believe this today.

Quote by Albert Camus about faith

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Quote by Albert Camus about faith

Every book was the best I could do at the time I wrote it, and every book was a story I still care about and believe in.

Quote by Orson Scott about faith

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

Quote by Orson Scott about faith

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I...

Quote by Orson Scott about faith

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Quote by Jane Austen about faith