Quotes About Belief

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it.

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. Living by faith is about when you do mess up, getting back up, brushing yourself off, and keep trying to improve where you mess up or where you have temptation.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.

I'm probably at my least religious I've ever been in a while. When you're moved by music, that's always good. But I haven't been talking to God too much lately.

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.

It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.

So my answer is, YES, everyone can find a hedgehog concept. If these companies can do it, anyone can do it. And anybody who says they can't is simply whining.

You set out to whip the world, and then, when you get beat up a little bit... In my case, you say, 'Father, I'm gonna let you have it. I've done what I can do.' You turn your will over to God.

When I'm standing in a stadium packed with 80,000 screaming fans, I can't just whip out my Bible before I run. That's when I start praying! It's so loud that I can't even hear what I'm saying, but it always helps.

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.