Belief Quotes - Page 39

• We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Jesus, Children

  Interview, 16 Mar. 1976

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• [He] seems to want it both ways: the freedom to hold and express beliefs, and immunity from criticism for those beliefs. This is the kind of attitude that leads inexorably to totalitarianism. It is to be decried, particularly in a university environment where the search for truth necessitates that no belief be treated as sacred or above scrutiny.

  Jeffrey Shallit

  Attitude, Criticism, Want

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• Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead to works. Faith in Christ comprises belief in Him, combined with trust in Him. One cannot have faith without belief; yet he may believe and still lack faith. Faith is vivified, vitalized, living belief.

  James E. Talmage

  Life, Believe, Acceptance

  James E. Talmage (2012). “Articles of Faith: Being a Consideration of the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, p.69, Lulu.com

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• I believe that God has opened up these treasures on intelligence to enhance His purposes on the earth.

  James E. Faust

  Believe, Intelligence, Treasure

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• No idea is ever dead until those who believe in it say it's dead.

  James A. Michener

  Believe, Ideas, No Idea

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• Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of the universe-it does not seem likely that the study of living beings will ever uncover general laws applicable outside the biosphere. But if the ultimate aim of the whole of science is indeed, as I believe, to clarify man's relationship to the universe, then biology must be accorded a central position . . .

  Jacques Monod

  Life, Believe, Men

  Jacques Monod (1972). “Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology”, Vintage

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• We believe that all men are the spirit children of God, created in his image. This concept is supported by the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Children, Believe, Men

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• The gospel of Jesus Christ is not limited to a system of beliefs; it is a plan of action.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Jesus, Action, Christ

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• After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Be Good

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• Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Believe, Men, Reflection

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.153

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• Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity - not simply for ourselves but for others - the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be.

  Henry Ford

  Country, Believe, Opportunity

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• I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each other, what now remains? Nothing, or assuredly very little. That which counts and endures is the modicum of positive truth which each contributes. The true statement is, of itself, able to displace the erroneous idea, and becomes, without our having taken the trouble of refuting anyone, the best of refutations.

  Henri Bergson

  Time, Philosophy, Taken

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• Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Believe, Fire

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.447, 谷月社

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• There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

  George Eliot

  Phrases, Serious, Misery

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.233

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• Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

  George Eliot

  Children, Believe, Hero

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.199, George Eliot

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• My generation has failed to stop the arms race. But it's really the men who have failed. Now it's up to the women, and I believe they can do it.

  Gene La Rocque

  Believe, Men, Race

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• [On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Believe, Thinking, Curves

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• Hitler had an unprecedented opportunity, such as no man will ever again be offered so easily, to create something entirely new. However, besides the fact that he knows absolutely nothing about matters economic, he cannot even fully understand his economic advisers. . . . His constant worry has ever been to keep himself in power. . . . He believes that he alone is a great man, and all others non-entities.

  Fritz Thyssen

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

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• I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Believe, Faithful

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• 'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

  Frederick William Thomas

  Love, Art, Believe

  Frederick William Thomas (1847). “Clinton Bradshaw: Or, The Adventures of a Lawyer. Two Volumes in One”, p.117

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• It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit. . . . No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?

  Francois Fenelon

  Love, Believe, Sacrifice

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• Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had a long and illustrious pedigree, as Columbus himself was well aware. . . . "The second reason that inspired the Admiral [Columbus] to launch his enterprise and helped justify his giving the name 'Indies' to the lands which he discovered was the authority of many learned men who said that one could sail westward from the western end of Africa and Spain to the eastern end of India, and that no great sea lay between."

  Ferdinand Columbus

  Men, Sea, Land

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• If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Leader, Criticism

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• I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Friendship, Believe, Book

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• However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Believe, Eye

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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