The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

I serve God.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

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.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

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

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

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.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

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.

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.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

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

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

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.

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

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

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.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

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

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

I’m a Christian by choice.

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.

Theology is unnecessary.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.