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Quotes About Belief

You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.
~ Andrew Greeley
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
~ John Lennon
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
~ Sun Tzu
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
~ Rene Descartes
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
~ Edward Teller
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
~ Fetty Wap
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
~ Claud Cockburn
Fake it until you make it.
~ Steven Tyler
I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.
~ Andrea Bocelli
When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.
~ Andrew Motion
I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.
~ Abraham Verghese
The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.
~ Ada Yonath
If something comes on the radio or in print, I don't think there are any facts to it at all until someone shows some proof.
~ Lane Kiffin
A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.
~ Howard Jacobson
You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.
~ Brett Hoebel
Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.
~ David O. McKay
But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
~ Anne Hutchinson
I definitely consider myself a Christian. There's things that I believe in, there's things I have a self-belief on. I know I got a great relationship with God and the universe. I just believe in being a righteous person and karma. Doing unto others as you would have done unto you. I really want to help teach that.
~ Big Sean
This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.
~ Charles Spurgeon
It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian - ten thousand times easier than it is to hold out unrepenting against the motives which God presents to the mind, to induce it to forsake its evil thoughts and turn unto Him.
~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
~ George Santayana
The words 'come unto Christ' are an invitation. It is the most important invitation you could ever offer to another person. It is the most important invitation anyone could accept.
~ Henry B. Eyring