I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

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.

God always has patience.

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.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

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

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

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

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

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.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

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

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.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

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

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

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.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

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.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout’s obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

I have to be seen to be believed.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

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.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

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.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

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

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Beto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.

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

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

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

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?