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.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

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

I believe in singing.

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

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

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

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

I have to be seen to be believed.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

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

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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.

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.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

I don’t believe in icons.

I answer only to God.

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.

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

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.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

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

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

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?

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

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