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

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

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

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

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

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.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

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

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

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

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

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

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

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.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

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

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

Only the insecure strive for security.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

I have to be seen to be believed.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

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

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

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.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.