Belief Quotes

I believe in the gods. Or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us I believe they are completely absent-minded.

What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause but what they say about their opponents.

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for' they do not feel like fighting.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity never of the correctness of a belief.

The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Believe not your own brother - believe instead your own blind eye.

I love an opposition that has convictions.

Convictions are the mainsprings of action the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest and they are rare.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Every life is a possession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.

Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.

I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them.

Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and the temporal.

Faith sees the invisible believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible.

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow because science must always test and measure and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Faith sees the invisible believes the incredible and receives the impossible.

We walk by faith not by sight.

Because you cannot see him God is everywhere.

Sorrow looks back worry looks around faith looks up.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not in hand.

Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding ... the invisible in the visible.

Physically it is impossible for a bee to fly, but because it believes it can then it can.

I don't have to be safe to feel safe, I always feel safe at my core.

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.

I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.

There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.

I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

My belief is you have one chance to make a first impression.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

I was a little chubby kid that no girls ever talked to. I had little chance of becoming an internationally known rock star. Music was my escape and my belief system.

Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.

Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.