#belief

"It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there."

"There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group."

"For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe this?", but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, "Must I believe this?"

"Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?"

"Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs."

"It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation."

"In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence."

"Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease."

"Faith has won it! Fear has lost it! When you get full of faith, the devil gets filled with fear! Keep your faith in light every day and you will keep the devil in fright always!"

"I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard."

"By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new."

"We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try."Now count the times it tells us to "trust."

"The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe."

"If "facts"convinced people of things, no one would have sex"

"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."

"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."

"My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."

"What have I always believed?That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right."

"What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?"

"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is."