Francis Thompson Believe Quotations

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

I do not believe that Nature has a heart; and I suspect that, like many another beauty, she has been credited with a heart because of her face

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul.

An atheist is a man who believes himself to be an accident