It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

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

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

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

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

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.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

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.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

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

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

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

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

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

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

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

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn’t come here. Well, it can’t hide forever – one day we will overhear it.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

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

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

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

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.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

I believe in being an innovator.

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.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

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

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

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

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.

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 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.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

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.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

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