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

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.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

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

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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

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

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

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

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 don’t believe in icons.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

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.

Belief creates the actual fact.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

Faith never makes a confession.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

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

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 was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

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

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.