Belief Quotes

Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.

Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.

Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

My mom lost her dad at a very young age, and has this sort of belief system of, you know, "If there's something that you want to do, if there's something that means a lot to you, do it now."

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.

The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we.

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

Hope is optimism plus a belief there is a path out of your adversity.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

When you have a belief, then you make your views known.

The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.

I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us.

The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

I do not believe in Belief.

I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential.