Quotes About Belief

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

I thought you had to be humble to become a saint, but a priest told me it takes all kinds to make it to heaven.

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic... I'm very faithful.

I wanted to be a priest when I was really young.

I didn't grow up in the Catholic church, but I went to a Catholic high school and a Catholic college, and the Jesuit priests are not saints floating around campus.

I never went to church. The priests couldn't scare me with all that crap about hell, but somehow I knew, inside of me somehow, I knew that I'd pay for it.

The creation of God itself, I deduced, came from our primal fear.

I don't like to say I'm not a believer because I still feel like a believer in a lot of things, primarily hope and grace and the power of human connection.

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

While the primary focus continues to be on religious minorities - the Christian religious minorities and the Jewish community - ISIS will also go after people who interpret and believe the Muslim faith differently than they do.

Story is the primary factor any day. If I believe that a particular director would do justice to it, I will accept an offer.

I believe, in my prime, I could have fought with anybody alive.

You know, around 14 or 15 I rebelled against Christianity pretty hardcore. I was reading a lot of other esoteric Eastern philosophy and getting into everything that wasn't dogmatic Christian. But I will say that it did kind of prime me for a more spiritual lifestyle. I didn't walk away with bitterness, even though there was some condemnation.

The fact I'm the third female Prime Minister, I never grew up believing my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.

Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined.

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.

When I was Prime Minister, it's right - we had a close relationship - but that did not prevent me, when I believed the United States position was wrong, arguing against them.

I completely believe in the leadership and vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and it is because of this that I have joined the BJP.

I just always lived in stories in my head. I believed I was a Martian princess until I was 10. I believed I was never going to die, and I'd been adopted and put on Earth because there was a war... and still sometimes, as I get older, I hope for my immortal life on Mars.

I had a great deal of confidence when I graduated from Berkeley. I had almost none when I was at Princeton. After a while, when people tell you you can't do something because you're a woman, you begin to believe maybe they're right.

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

It's not a principle unless it costs you something.