A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

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

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

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

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

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

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

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

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.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

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

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.

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

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

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

I have to be seen to be believed.

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

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old as well as new – North as well as South.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

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.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

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 have always thought I was the best ever player.

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

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

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.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

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

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

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

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

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

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

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.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

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.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.