Between believing a thing and thinking you know is only a small step and quickly taken.
Believe - Belief Quotes
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain all: if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
You must believe in free will; there is no choice.
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor’s religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new […]
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.
I am convinced that if a dozen skeptics were to draw up in parallel columns a list of the events narrated in the gospels, which they consider credible, and incredible respectively, their lists would be different in several particulars. Belief is literally a matter of taste.
We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
You believe what you want to believe.
Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for nonsmart reasons.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not make men believe.
