Quotes About Belief

Does that really work, converting someone with a bumper sticker? How weak of a mind do you have to have?

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special effects.

[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work.

Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.

I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting.

What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something.

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries." I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the Lord's work and all.

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.

Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don't believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it's probably just like a habit.

I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying 'Would you like to work with Al Pacino?' I would go crazy.

I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.

You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well.

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

I therefore have to use The Force. And weirdly, this doesn't work very well. I don't understand why, because on the last census, I put my religion down as Jedi Knight.

If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

I should have had more faith in my talent. I think I would have gotten to achieve more, earlier, had I believed in myself. But I let other people take credit for my work.

When I'm in touch with the idea that there is a higher power and that there is, you know, other factors at work, it - it kind of quells my narcissism.