Quotes About Belief

If you want to practice Islam in the inconsequential, semi-secular sense, fine.

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

I used to practice Wicca.

All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

If somebody believes that a certain practice will get them to heaven, and then other people believe a different way of doing it, I think it's their choice.

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

I'm a lawyer, I practiced for many years, and so I believe in the Fifth Amendment.

I am a practicing Hindu and have made no secrets about it.

I think religion is very personal. I definitely identify as Muslim. I consider myself practicing, but I don't think people who observe me from the outside would think of me as devout, and that doesn't bother me because one of the beauties of Islam is the fact that it is personal: you read the Koran, and what you believe is what you believe.

It's very hard to be a practicing Christian in the 21st-century world if you set things up as, 'Everyone is against us. You can't believe modern science, modern media or modern political institutions because they're all conspiring against Christians.'

I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life.

I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.

I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.

I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.

My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.

I'm a conservative - a practicing one. I'm not a talk-about-it one.

I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

You are not practicing Judaism if you celebrate Christmas.