The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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.

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.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

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

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

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.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

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

Act, and God will act.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

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.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

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.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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 answer only to God.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

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.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

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.

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.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

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.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

The less you know, the more you believe.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

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.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.