I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

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

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

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

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Since the very beginning, Emeril’s had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

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?

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

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

I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

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

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

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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.

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

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

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.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

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

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

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

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

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.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

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.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.