belief quotes

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

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

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.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

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

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

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.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

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

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

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

I serve God.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

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

You just have to have a simple faith.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

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.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

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.

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

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

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.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

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

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

I don’t believe in icons.

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.