I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

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.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

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

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

I’m a Christian by choice.

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

You’ll see it when you believe it.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

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

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.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

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

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

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

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

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.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

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

God helps those who help themselves.

God always has patience.

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

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.

I believe in singing.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

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.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

You think I’m going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

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.

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

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

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

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

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

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

Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Because of my parents‘ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.