In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vain-gloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man believing in God.