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

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

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

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

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.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

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.

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

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

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

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.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

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

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

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.

I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years – since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, ‚Hercules‘ was one of the movies that I – not chased, because I didn’t have the power to chase anything – but always had in the back of my mind.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

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

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.