Belief Quotes

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief."

Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.

The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal.

Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really?

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

I'm speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square.

I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.

My belief also is that Marilyn Monroe passed away long before she should have left us.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Follow those who follow something bigger than themselves - an idea, a belief, a vision, a cause. Run away from those who say we need to follow them.

For everyone, well-being is a journey. The secret is committing to that journey and taking those first steps with hope and belief in yourself.

Belief gives you the power to achieve the extraordinary

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

It is my belief that if you have children and you serve overseas, that if you should die, your children should get a free education.

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.

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.

A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

Self belief will always push fear away, but you need to always practice self belief otherwise fear will come back and tap you on the shoulder.

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

The ideal is not believing in, but believing from.

Know what you want and believe that you can have it.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue. That's where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.

Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.