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

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

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

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

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

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

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it’s a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it’s not! You don’t really take responsibility for your work.

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.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

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

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

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.

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.

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

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

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 have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

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.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.