Quotes About Belief

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

I couldn't believe it! I mean, I'd always dreamed of acting on the screen - my previous background was all theater - but I wasn't sure if the opportunity would ever present itself. Not only was this acting for the screen, this was acting in 'The Hunger Games!' I knew that I had to give this audition my all.

I've ventured into my past life and have experienced it. What I was in the previous life and why I've taken birth in this world, I believe in all of this because I've seen it on my own.

I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

It's true, the Church will be raptured before the final seven years of Earth's history, but during that final seven years, many people will come to faith in Christ, but they will pay a terrible price to do so.

If there is one person in Nigeria that believes that petroleum prices should not go up by one naira, it is President Buhari.

I am a Hindu, and I have pride in that.

I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vain-gloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man believing in God.

We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.

I stand by the Constitution and I stand by the Second Amendment and it's something that I take pride in. It's something that I'll back up.

We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church.

Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.

I don't fear Holmes, but I think he's a good fighter. He has a lot of pride. But I wouldn't be fighting him if I feared him. It's going to be a tough fight. People say with all the hoopla out there, I won't be able to handle it. I believe the pressure's on him. I'm just going to do my thing.

China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

I didn't have the calling to be a priest. You know, either you do or you don't.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.