Quotes About Belief

I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

Certainly, there is, in our culture, this notion of, you know, you can become anything. You can change.

There's this notion that music has to be confined to some small, simple place to be popular, something I never believed.

Truth is an illusory notion.

The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out their pro-Christmas crusade.

I applied to only one drama school - if I didn't get in, I would give up the whole notion. That's how much of a chance I was giving myself.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.

People didn't understand my passion. I dreamt big. I saw myself playing at Notre Dame. I saw myself in a classroom.

You see, my movie isn't about football, or about Notre Dame. It's about hope, about the human spirit.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.

I know that it's axiomatic in the film industry that you're not supposed to let the novelist develop their own story. Well, first of all, that's kind of up to the novelist - because they don't have to sell it. But also, I don't believe it. It's about trust.

I try to approach the film medium as a novelist and the novel medium as a filmmaker on some level. It's that question: Do we think in pictures, or do we think in language? And the novelist believes one thing, and the filmmaker believes another thing - and I'm fascinated by that balance.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.

God gave us grace on November 8, 2016, to change the course we were on. God had been taken out of our schools and lives, a nation had turned its back on God.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

I read a lot of the battle that goes on between the ufologists, you know, the ones who think that UFOs are aliens, and the people who think that UFOs are demons. They battle with each other, and sometimes I interject comments, every now and then. Not as myself, but under another moniker.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.