I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

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

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

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

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.

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

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

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.

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.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

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

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

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

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

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

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.

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.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

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.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

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.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

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.

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

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

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

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.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

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.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

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