Quotes About Belief

God is not dead. He is just not God.

It is said that God the Creator is all-knowing. But if that were true, He would have known better.

Even at their absolute best, religious answers remain authoritarian attempts to instill virtue through inspiring intimidation.

Money is not the root of all evil, but it is popular because people believe it is.

It's all in the mind.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

No, I don't know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God. I support the separation of church and state. I'm just not very high on atheists.

My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderers behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved — and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish.

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Your religion of origin has such a bone-deep hold on you that, as with a native language, it's your only hope for true religious fluency.

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

May the Force be with you.

Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it.

LET not your heart be troubled; believe in God, and believe in me also.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.