Belief Quotes
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.
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.
Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.
If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
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.
Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.
No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.
I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical, ideological.
A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.
An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes.
Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.
Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie.
Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.
We can never give up the belief that the good guys always win. And that we are the good guys.
We look and see what we see in a mirror, and we believe it. That's important, the question of belief. The question is: Should we believe what we see in a mirror?
Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.
Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.
The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.
The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.
If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they'll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually.
Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.