Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

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

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I believe in singing.

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

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.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

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.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

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.

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.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

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.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

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

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

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

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

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

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

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.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had 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.

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 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.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

A lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.