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.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

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

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

They say miracles are past.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

I believe in singing.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

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.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

God to me is love.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

God is everywhere.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

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.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

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.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

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.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

I’m a Christian by choice.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

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

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

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

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.