proverbs on Beliefs

’Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Arguments won’t change people. Simply giving away kindness won’t either. Only Jesus has the power to change people, and it will be harder for them to see Jesus if their view of Him is blocked by our b...

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Creeds must disagree: it is the whole fun of the thing. If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue h...

Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes.

You cannot reason someone out of something he or she was not reasoned into.

Psychoanalysis . . . daily demonstrates to us how youthful persons lose their religious belief as soon as the authority of the father breaks down.

It is always crucial to remember that our beliefs are formed not only through reason and argument but also through social conditioning.