Quotes About Belief

Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.

I am really not a believer that there are UFOs observing us here on Earth, and yet I saw something that blew my mind, something I could not explain.

I've always been obsessed with health and fitness and hence been a firm believer that change needs to begin from the inside!

My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.

I have had quite a few obsessive fans. They write to me and then they turn up at signings and look really sheepish. If I said 'boo' to them, they would run away. I think they maybe believe I could take over their lives and sort them out. If they saw the state of my kitchen they wouldn't think that.

I am out to prove that there are no obstacles for the disabled.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Most innovative things are not obvious to other people at the time. You have to believe in yourself. If you've got a good idea, follow it even though others tell you it's not.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

Honestly, I would love to be friends with Fox Mulder on 'The X-Files.' That's almost a little too obvious, but that would be my answer. I'd love to hang out with him.

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves.

Obviously, there's times in your career when people doubt you.

I've been at Amazon for almost 20 years at this point, so I've obviously drunk the Kool-Aid.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

The occult - what do you mean, Jesus? That's occult to me. It's so far-fetched, it's ridiculous.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.

The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied the apex of essay writing.

Mio padre possedeva sicurezze incrollabili su certe faccende inerenti all'universo. Per lui, tutte le cose buone – dalle trote alla salute eterna – derivavano dalla grazia, e la grazia dall'arte, e l'arte non è una cosa facile.

The Anti-Semiten. Why don't they ever learn? Why does God permit it?" Roth sneered. "God is a luxury I don't give myself.