Belief Quotes

I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.

No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred.

It's like giving up a belief in Santa Claus.

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.

I have a very strong belief in God.

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large, by consensus.

I'm really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything's going to be great.

Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

I have a very strong belief in what I like, or a very strong opinion in genre films that I like to watch.

Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

I don't see why any president has to talk about his belief in God.

Our experiences tend to support our belief systems.

I think sometimes it's hard to know what you feel, or to know what's real and what's not, because love or hate or any feeling is a belief. You can say you hate someone, but you don't truly know them.

My message is strong and my belief is strong, in the fact that we can still be provocative and have fun and just get informed.

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen.

Our beliefs become the rules we live by, and then here's what happens: We make ourselves right.

I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. I would use my strength instead to nurture my belief that my life would unfurl uniquely.

You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.

The message "Your body isn't good enough" translates in a little girls mind to "YOU aren't good enough." This becomes a core belief that gets passed on to the next generation.

I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.

A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.

No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.

All belief begins in the will to believe.

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

Without faith, without belief in something, what are we?

It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it.

I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see the connecting thread between all religious beliefs.

It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

As a man believes, so he will act.

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.