What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head, or a very short creed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Oftimes our belief, if in another, we would regard a superstition.
Knowing what our beliefs are requires confronting ourselves, our fears, and our resistance to change. Once we know what our real beliefs are, we can allow them to evolve and change if they do not serve us.
PAT. B. ALLEN, Art Is a Way of Knowing
Belief in God does not rest upon a mere doctrine of logic, which some other statement of logic may come and upset. It is one of those primal facts in the human soul which no mere logic has established nor can refute.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
Most people are too slow to believe, but once you get them going, they believe too much.
Men that believe only what they understand can write their creed on a postage stamp.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
ANNE ENRIGHT, The Gathering
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