The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

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.

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

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

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

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

God always has patience.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

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.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

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

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

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

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.