I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

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

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

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

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

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

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

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

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

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

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!

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

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

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

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

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Faith never makes a confession.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

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.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

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

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

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

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

I answer only to God.

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

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.