The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

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.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.