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

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.

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

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

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I’m informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I’m a very ardent patriot.

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.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

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

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

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.

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

Theology is unnecessary.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

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.

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.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

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

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

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

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

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

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

God helps those who help themselves.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

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

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

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

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

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

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

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.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

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

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

I have to be seen to be believed.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

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.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.