The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

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

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

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to 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.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

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

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.

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

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

God helps those who help themselves.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

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

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Beto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

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

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.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

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.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

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.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

The less you know, the more you believe.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

I am not a televangelist.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

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.

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.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.