Quotes About Belief

Love is a complicated emotion because you can learn something or hear something that goes against what you have come to know personally. It can be very challenging to what you believe.

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.

I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.

Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.

I personally don't live a nihilistic life, I don't have any use for it.

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

There are seasons in life. Don't ever let anyone try to deny you the joy of one season because they believe you should stay in another season... Listen to yourself. Trust your instincts. Keep your perspective.

If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.

I'm a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don't think in these terms. I'm more simple than that. I'm a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life.

Some may try to argue that conservatism and libertarianism are contradictory perspectives. But I disagree.

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who's as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you'll use your knife, that's an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors.

If you assume away most or all of the questions or difficulties, you can persuade yourself of just about anything.

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.

Actually my brother didn't think Imran was religious enough for me. I had to persuade him.

It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

As humans, we're so easily persuaded. We join this cause or that cause, and suddenly the other thing is wrong.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.