belief quotes

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

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.

I’m a Christian by choice.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

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

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

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

I answer only to God.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

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

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

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.

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.

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.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

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

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

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

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

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

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

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.

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

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

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?

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

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

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

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.