Quotes About Belief

Confidence is about taking chances, and never doubting the outcome.

But I had no doubt that whatever happened, I'd be fine.

No. It's not about luck, I don't believe in luck. There are facts and opportunities and realities, and how you respond to them determines whether you succeed or fail.

If you can convince yourself, you can convince the other fellow,

the most powerful force in human nature is the spiritual-power technique taught in the Bible . . . faith in God, faith in other people, faith in yourself.

Confidence is never about you alone; rich confidence also includes believing in the power of we. Total confidence requires a belief in yourself, other people in your life, and in something greater than yourself. When you possess all three of these beliefs, you'll have a balanced confidence—something that can sustain you through uncertainties and difficulties.

When your faith is strong, you've got an extra tank of rocket fuel for those times when the road is long and there are no refill stations in sight.

If you can worry, you can imagine success!

A rich sense of confidence comes from three different types of belief: confidence in yourself, trust in others, and faith in God.

As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.

It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.

Maybe Marcus was wrong. Maybe a single person can save the world. I'll bet I could. I could save the whole world - for a night.

Talk about enchantment. Forget about working for something just to have it fall apart on you. Let the magic come. That's what I say. Let the magic come and fill in every inch of that little black crack behind your breastbone.

Just wait. Someone's going to come along, someone you never expected, someone who needs you because you're you.

Absolutely. We all want something that sticks." I don't mention that wanting it is a whole different thing from actually believing you can get it.

Lazlo doesn't believe in seatbelts. He says they show a serious lack of faith in a driver.

I can't believe you'd even make such a suggestion!" Devona's eyes flashed dangerously. Magilla laughed. "What part of 'I'm a demon' don't you understand?

Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War is the culmination of the fifth-century tendency toward the exclusion of divine explanation. Not only does he refuse to admit non-naturalistic causality, but he cynically skewers any attempts on the part of the actors in his story to invoke the gods. Whatever his own personal beliefs were, the History can reasonably be claimed to be the earliest surviving atheist narrative of human history.

Diogenes's central point is in effect the same as mine: that officially sanctioned religious records only tell you when worship seems to work and excise all evidence to the contrary.

the post-Enlightenment West is seen as exceptional, completely unlike anything else that has preceded it and unlike anything elsewhere in the world. This is a dangerous misprision. To the religious, it can suggest that belief is somehow universal, essential to the human condition, and that creeping secularism is an unnatural state. Atheists,

He who has not known war has not known God.

Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked for God or nothing at all, life was all there was. And death.