Quotes About Belief

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

We both loved Mac for his practicality. We loved him because we saw that he was naive, to think there was always a way for people to get help.

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.

It is perilous to live past the end of your myth

The faithful must not be misled

His optimistic dream of the great American adventure was what made his writing alive, his belief in the essential joyousness of following his own emotions and being excited by the promise of life.

He was a man who'd turned his personal likes and dislikes into a moral code; because he didn't enjoy spending money in the Woodyard cafe, there was something morally suspect about the people who did. The Brethren had been much the same. Matthew thought they'd created a God in their own image, hard, cold and inflexible.

I found her a little irritating – she was one of those rather self-righteous women with a heightened belief in their own moral superiority

Almost, he hoped that there would be no afterlife; surely that would take energy and there were days now when he felt that he had no energy left.

Perez thought he was stupid to believe that Catherine had been killed because she'd filmed some secret. So little in Shetland was secret. It was simply unacknowledged. There was something Victorian in this need to put on a good show.

We tend to give a moral weight to the things with which we're most comfortable, don't you think?

No signature, but none was needed.

And that brief contact allowed her to believe that her colleagues were wrong. She did have friends. She did have a life away from the job.

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ.

No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God. Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.

Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.

Even if evolution were true, it wouldn't disprove God. God has performed more spectacular feats than evolution. It's not even a daunting challenge to a belief in God. If you want something that complicates a belief in God, try coming to terms with Michael Moore being one of God's special creatures.

Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe? Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like Western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we're going to continue down the other pathway, where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties, and that we remain a Christian nation.

Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that.

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'