Quotes About Belief

It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe.

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief.

My faith was undermined by the same sort of things that make people skeptics of religion in general. Part of it was, there was no real place for me in Judaism. Maybe if there was I would've hung in there, but I was attracted to the social-justice aspects of Judaism, and I was attracted to the prophets.

Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.

It's like miners' coal dust underneath your fingernails. Very difficult to scrub out. I'm a social democrat to my fingertips.

I have my own foundation, which I just started, called Believe Anything Is Possible, which is going to be an organization to help the underprivileged.

I don't understand the public, but I do believe the public is oversold and underrated every day. Give the people something interesting, something to chew on, I say.

My whole life people underrated me.

I don't know if it's underrated or not but I have confidence in my speed and my quickness around the court.

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.

No one has ever seen God. So, for me, it is acceptable that if you don't understand a thing, just call it God.

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

I understood Stephen's point of view because if you had been given a death sentence at the age of 21, would you find it easy to believe in a loving God? Also, Stephen's work was taking him into the depths of the universe, and it was, I thought, fairly understandable that there wasn't much room for God in his equations.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

I think people need reassurance that there is an afterlife. That's perfectly understandable.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.