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Quotes About Belief

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.
~ George C. Marshall
Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.
~ Marianne Williamson
When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."
~ Andrew Sullivan
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.
~ John Steinbeck
Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.
~ Raymond Arroyo
My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
~ Janet Suzman
I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
~ William Butler Yeats
Faith is a strong word in my life. That's one thing my mother has always stressed to me.
~ LaDainian Tomlinson
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
~ Clay Aiken
When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.
~ Frank Gehry
So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.
~ Michael Clarke Duncan
The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.
~ Charles Alexander Eastman
I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
~ Andrei Platonov
The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family.
~ Steve Fowler
As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.
~ Jim Al-Khalili
My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?
~ Anne Waldman
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.
~ H. L. Mencken
It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
~ Elizabeth Moon
My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.
~ Amy Tan
For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
~ Amy Tan
There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats.
~ David Gemmell