Belief Quotes

With mankind some expressions, such as the bristling of the hair under the influence of extreme terror, or the uncovering of the teeth under that of furious rage, can hardly be understood, except on the belief that man once existed in a much lower and animal-like condition.

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

The persecution of any minority is inhuman and unnatural. That belief is timeless and beyond change.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Others will misapprehend according to their individual views, hold on to them tenaciously and not easily discard them; we shall not misapprehend according to individual views nor hold on to them tenaciously, but shall discard them with ease - thus effacement can be done.

Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

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Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.