I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

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.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

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

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

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.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

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

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

My message is that God is a good God.

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.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

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

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

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.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

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

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.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

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.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

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

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

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

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

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

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

I answer only to God.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

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

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

You’ll see it when you believe it.