If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

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.

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

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

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

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

I have always believed in God.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

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

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

My message is that God is a good God.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

God always has patience.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

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

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout’s obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

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.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

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.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

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

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

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

The less you know, the more you believe.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

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