Quotes About Belief

Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.

We should not fear what our country was built on: a set of Judeo-Christian principles.

I'm pretty well grounded in Christian principles.

I live my life not to please my pastor or my church or fellow Christians. I live my life according to my own convictions and morals and core values and principles, and a lot of times, that's not going to add up to other Christians.

There are people in positions of power that are righteous about what they believe: they're enacting out evil principles, but they don't believe that that's what they're doing.

It's pointless to talk to Fed members about economics because they are academics who believe in money-printing. Some of them believe they didn't print enough, and so with these kinds of people, it is like running to the pope. What do you want to tell them?

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.

What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.

There was never any doubt of Christ's priorities.

I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.

My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.

I'm looking at the world through a very positive prism.

I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.

In 'The Next Three Days,' even though it was a prison breakout movie, I was asking myself, 'What would I do? How far would I go for the woman I loved? How far would I go, and what would I do when the person then told me that they were guilty? Could I still believe in them?' So it was very personal.

I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.

In my mind, there was never a thought that I wasn't going to find a way to get myself out of prison.

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I don't actually believe there's any such thing as privacy.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal.

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.