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

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

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

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

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

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

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

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

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

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

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

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

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

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

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.

I believe in singing.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

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

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

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

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

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.

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

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.