"Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean."

Swinburne, A. C. on jesus christ   

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"I am pretty sure that we err in treating these sayings as paradoxes. It would be nearer the truth to say that it is life itself which is paradoxical and that the sayings of Jesus are simply a recognition of that fact."

Taylor, Thomas on jesus christ   

"Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God."

Tozer, A. W. on jesus christ   

"Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy."

Weil, Simone on jesus christ   

"In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion."

Runcie, Robert on travel   

"One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion."

Einstein, Albert on communism and socialism
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"Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object."

Frye, Northrop on religion   

"If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church."

Brokaw, Tom on fishing   

"Religion is in the heart, not in the knees."

Jerrold, Douglas William on prayer
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"Religion is love; in no case is it logic."

Webb, Beatrice Potter on religion   

"The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion."

Wesley, John on churches   

"There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing."

Mencken, H. L. on books - reading   

"At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide."

Unknown, Source on belief   

"A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on architecture   

"Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth."

Borne, Ludwig on belief
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"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Carroll, Lewis on belief
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"One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Carroll, Lewis on belief
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"We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on belief   

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."

Demosthenes on belief
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"You'll see it when you believe it."

Dyer, Wayne on belief
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"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on belief
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"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on belief
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"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time."

Giacomini, Lynwood L. on belief
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"Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible."

Hodges, H. A. on belief   

"Loving is half of believing."

Hugo, Victor on belief
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"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."

Black, Shirley Temple on belief
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"Everything is possible for him who believes."

Bible on belief
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"Every dogma has its day."

Rotstein, Abraham on belief   

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"The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ."

Phelps, William Lyon on belief   

"We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on bigotry
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"As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true."

Certeau, Michel De on belief   

"From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery."

Newman, Cardinal J. on religion   

"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on belief   

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"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"

Anthony, Dr. Robert on belief
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"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."

Augustine, St. on belief
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"I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up."

Bakker, Jim on belief   

"Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses."

Baldwin, James on belief
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"Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true."

Bartholomew, Saint on belief
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"You must see first before you can believe."

Holliwell, Raymond on belief   

"Belief creates the actual fact."

James, William on belief
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