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

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

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

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

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

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

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

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

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

My message is that God is a good God.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

True friends stab you in the front.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

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

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

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

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

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?

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

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.

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?

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

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

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

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

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

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.

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 have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

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

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.