What We Believe Quotes

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.

Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.

What really matters is what you believe.

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

We read, we hear, we believe a good theology of grace. But that’s not the way we live. The good news of the Gospel of grace has not penetrated the level of our emotions.

Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on.

To have a strong community of people who believe in your potential can make all the difference in the world. So many people have invested in me and I want to do the same for Chicago’s teens.

The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!

America has a lot of problems, believe me. I know what the problems are even better than you do. They're deep problems. They're serious problems. We don't need more.

The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.

I really believe that you have to earn things. I don't feel comfortable unless I have worked really hard.

There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly, I do not believe it at all.

To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.

Any one can heal who believes that he can, and who will take the time to put that belief in motion through the Law.

To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures.

But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

Scientists believe that the universe is made of hydrogen because they claim it's the most plentiful ingredient. I claim that the most plentiful ingredient is stupidity.

That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

I don't vote. We're led to believe we're free through the exercise of ineffective freedoms.

I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.

I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

We really believe that whatever we put our minds to, we can achieve.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

Believe me, you have to get up early if you want to get out of bed.

To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.

If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.

He who knows most believes the least.