Top 100 Quotes About Belief In God
#1. It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life ...
the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.
Deepak Chopra
#2. The belief in God, is not a matter of common sense or logic or argument, but of feeling. it is as impossible to prove the existence of God as to disprove it. I do not believe in God. I see no need of such an idea .
W. Somerset Maugham
#3. Atheism has become a major threat to the church. New Atheists tend to be articulate and belligerent. They are aggressively engaging in "atheist evangelism," determined to stamp out every vestige of belief in God, which they insist is not only "stupid" but "wicked."
Dave Hunt
#4. Faith is the only belief which remains alive between heaven and hell.
Munia Khan
#5. There is only God. REALITY is God and has never required your belief. This reality no "one" survives. In Ultimate Reality no "one" is saved either - there is simply nothing to save you "from" : you have not emerged from any "other" and there is no place else for "you" to disappear into. Ever.
Adi Da
#6. I do not put much stock in "believing in God." The grammar of "belief" invites a far too rationalistic account of what it means to be a Christian. "Belief" implies propositions about which you get to make up your mind before you know the work they are meant to do.
Stanley Hauerwas
#7. In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built.
Abhijit Naskar
#8. In God we Believe And god believes in love.
Ujas Soni
#9. Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.
Edward Abbey
#10. Christians rejected the need for proof to support belief in God, yet dismissed proof altogether when it was there.
Kira Peikoff
#11. Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.
Eric Hoffer
#12. The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.
Nelson Mandela
#13. I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
C. G. Jung
#14. I was putting too much stress on my body and not living a healthy life style, I wasn't taking care of myself. I was able to turn that around by having a belief in myself and trusting God and then doing what it took to get healthy again.
John Assaraf
#15. But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.
George MacDonald
#16. The process of driving a wedge between sacred and secular history is called secularization...the eventual result of this process is that belief in God is relegated to nothing more than a "personal belief" that has no standing in public discourse.
Stephen Leston
#17. If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.
Leo Tolstoy
#19. I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown.
Louis Agassiz
#20. Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.
Abhijit Naskar
#23. When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God.
Randy Alcorn
#24. I can no longer pretend that I believe in God. It's highly possible that I lost this belief when I started having sexual relationships.
Catherine Millet
#25. In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.
Simone Weil
#26. We are always hungry and never satisfied because we don't trust and won't risk. Can we reach a place where we are satisfied with just enough? You are enough. You have enough. Do not worry about tomorrow. God will provide in our lives just as God provides in the Eucharist.
Mary DeTurris Poust
#27. Hah! None of that matters, lad. God believes in you. Your belief or lack of it doesn't change His existence.
Michelle Griep
#28. The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one's beliefs.
Alister E. McGrath
#29. I admire those believers who speak of such things with the same aplomb as if the'd just split a beer with God in the cabin next door.
Sylvain Tesson
#30. He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
Cormac McCarthy
#31. Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.
Clarence Darrow
#32. The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.
Tommy Franks
#33. You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do ... and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.
Criss Jami
#34. We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.
Christopher Hitchens
#35. Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#36. Faith is not the belief that everything will be all right tomorrow, but the belief that I possess the strength to make everything all right today.
Charles F. Glassman
#37. Because you deserve dignity, beyond anything else in this world. You deserve a God, and a faith, and a belief that finds you dignified at the core.
Hannah Brencher
#38. To wait, biblically speaking, is not to assume the worst, worry, make demands, or take control. Nor is waiting doing nothing. It is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief. To wait is to "rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him" (Psalm 37:7).
Max Lucado
#39. If someone believes in god, is he a liar? He never saw god or any proof or evidence of god. He only heard about god.
Debasish Mridha
#40. There is a realm in which miracles are possible and do take place. The door to this realm is the belief in all possibilities and YOU are the key.
Vivian Amis
#41. My belief in God is responsible for what I am ... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?
Robert Vaughn
#42. God wants us to believe in something bigger and better than ourselves.
Jessica Lowery
#43. When I was seven I believed in God so I told Him I was sorry about kicking my sister and to "please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.
Emma Rose Kraus
#45. Sometimes belief is the reason for liberation; other times, our own conviction prevents our escape. It depends on whether or not you believe God is listening, if you can cling to hope in the gravest of times. Hope is a precious life force within us.
Christopher Hawke
#46. If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow that God exists? Surely not. All that would follow would be the desireability of the belief.
Richard Posner
#47. True. There is
a beautiful Jesus.
He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef.
How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in!
How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes!
But I can't. Need is not quite belief.
Anne Sexton
#48. The true foundation of the brotherhood of humankind is belief in the knowledge that God is the Father of humankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is not only a generous impulse but also a divine command.
Harry S. Truman
#49. Like the kite that caught up to the sky,
painted with clouds, I lost track of it,
but it was connected
by string, something I was holding,
something I could always
bring back.
Kelli Russell Agodon
#50. Everybody has faith of some kind in one thing or another. Even the atheist has faith that there is no God. And the agnostic has faith in his belief that he is unable to believe.
Ron Brackin
#51. In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.
Tom Hollander
#52. All your life should be seen and measured in the light of eternity.
Jim George
#53. A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth ... It establishes the equality of [humanity] ...
Benjamin Rush
#54. A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
Denis Diderot
#55. What is gayer than believing in a household god?
Franz Kafka
#56. Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for.
Elizabeth Goudge
#57. Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.
Walter Kasper
#58. Perhaps it is not the belief of God that makes us happier but belief in something, anything. How else to explain the fact that the happiest countries in the world--Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, the Netherlands--are hardly religious at all?
Eric Weiner
#59. The core of all religions is a belief in a supreme personal god.
Frank Tipler
#60. Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.
Nido R. Qubein
#61. The Eucharist becomes a microcosmic moment of belief and power in which we say we believe in the real presence of God in Jesus, in this bread, and in this wine.
Richard Rohr
#63. Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.
Cormac McCarthy
#64. Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and transcendent place.
Duop Chak Wuol
#65. Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#66. The problem Christians have isn't our belief in what God could do, but on what God should do.
Todd Stocker
#67. We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.
Andy Rooney
#68. Corrie said she was glad that what they were doing - what they had just done - appeared not to bother him, in spite of his belief. She said that she herself had never had any time for God, because her father was enough to cope with.
Alice Munro
#69. I have a strong belief in God ... I find religion to be a very personal thing ... I am also very spiritual.
Sela Ward
#70. I am not saying that you have to believe in God to make moral decisions. God's existence is not dependent on my belief in him, anyway. However, without the objective reality of God, there would be no conscience".
Michael Ots
#71. If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. It knows God more certainly and it can enjoy God more deeply.
Os Guinness
#72. The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him. [p.250]
Northrop Frye
#73. We are called to service in the kingdom of God. The Christian life is not about what you claim. It is about what you believe. True belief cannot be separated from what we do.
Tyler Edwards
#74. Belief in God's sovereignty coupled with his promises to reward those who diligently seek him (Heb. 11:6) provides even more powerful incentive to pray.
Bryan Chapell
#75. You are a winner; dare to claim it. You reserve your joy if you reverse your belief. You deserve to celebrate ... It will happen when you dare to believe in God!
Israelmore Ayivor
#76. But if God is the flowers and the trees
And the hills and the sun and the moonlight,
Then I believe in him,
Then I believe in him all the time,
And my whole life is an oration and a mass,
And a communion with my eyes and through my ears.
Alberto Caeiro
#78. I don't believe in God, I only believe in Al Pacino, and that's the truth.
Javier Bardem
#79. When we get to the end of human beings we have to delude ourselves into a belief in God, like a gourmet who demands more complex sauces with his food.
Graham Greene
#80. I have a very strong belief in God.
M. Ward
#81. Faith and beliefs are the common things in all religion, so God is the faith and the belief without exception.
Debasish Mridha
#82. I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of a universal and beneficent Creator does not seem to arise in the mind of man, until he has been elevated by long-continued culture.
Charles Darwin
#83. Perhaps it is because my conviction is anyone may believe whatever they wish. Intolerance is a greater offense against God than holding a strange or even inconsistent belief. You have the right to worship what you wish - a pile of stones in your garden - as long as you do not injure others.
Anne Perry
#84. Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.
Terry Pratchett
#85. In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.
Bernadette Roberts
#86. [M]y religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.
Stonewall Jackson
#87. Unlike 'other' religious belief systems in competition with Christianity, we have not been called to become 'absorbed' into the deity but rather brought into communion with God through union with Christ thereby maintaining our unique individuality and personal identity
R. Alan Woods
#88. God's existence may not be proved, in the hard rationalist sense of the word. Yet it can be affirmed with complete sincerity that belief in God is eminently reasonable and makes more sense of what we see in the world, discern in history, and experience in our lives than its alternatives.
Alister E. McGrath
#89. I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.
Reza Aslan
#90. Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
Katey Sagal
#91. Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
Bertrand Russell
#93. My belief in God is personal, I do not need to browbeat anyone into agreeing with me, because I believe what I believe and I try to live by it. My belief in God is about trying to be the best person I can be in this life ...
Dorothy Koomson
#94. If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?
Bob Riley
#96. Why did God even bother to create minds that naturally gauge their level of confidence in a belief on the evidence and arguments for and against it if he's only pleased with minds that can make themselves more certain than the evidence and arguments for it warrant? I just don't get it!
Gregory A. Boyd
#97. Yes. There is one God, and he lives in the sky, and he hears all of us. It is just that here on earth, we are confused about how to believe in him. But what does it matter, as long as we trust he is there?
Kristin Harmel
#98. Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not.
George Bernard Shaw
#99. Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.
M. Scott Peck
#100. Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him
Jeremy Aldana
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