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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

 

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I have known many good people who did not believe in God. But I have never known a human being who was good who did not believe in people. [language slightly modified]

 

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In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

 

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

 

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To succeed, we must first believe that we can

 

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By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.

 

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When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

 

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

 

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:

 

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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.

 

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A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

 

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believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.

 

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I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.

 

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Some beliefs are like walled gardens. They encourage
exclusiveness, and the feeling of being especially privileged.
Other beliefs are expansive and lead the way into wider and
deeper sympathies.

 

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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run

 

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The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter

 

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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

 

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All ... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best or its worst as you will, by its high-water mark of virtue or its low-water mark of vice. But falsehood begins when you measure the ebb of any other religion against the flood-tide of your own. There is a noble and a base side to every history.

 

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As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

 

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Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods.