Quotes About Belief

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

I will never say never. If it is God's plan, it will surely happen.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.

Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.

Winning matches on any surface will definitely give you a much larger element of trust in what you're doing.

The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.

Looking back and knowing what I do, I believe the people who started the initial surge at Heysel were not Liverpool fans.

It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.

Americans don't believe that we have a surplus of jobs. They believe that we have a surplus of job seekers, and they are competing for these jobs.

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.

As children we were bombarded by competing answers. Church says one thing, school another. Now as adults it's no surprise that if we discuss the nature of it all, we generally spout some combination of the two, depending on our individual inclination and mood.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

As a footballer, you have to be confident you can win all the time so it does not come as a surprise.

I don't believe in rankings. Sometimes the rankings surprise me. I don't think it's fair to judge a team on the basis of rankings.

Just get a bag and drop a dream in it, and you'll be surprised what happens.

If we discovered, emphatically, that ghosts were real, I probably wouldn't be surprised.

I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.