Quotes About Belief

In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.

Particularly as a Jew, I don't like missionary work. I've had it focused on me, and I don't like it. Let people be what they want to be.

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.

I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there

God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.

Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work.

I was constantly around all those religious images and to me, angels exist. I feel we were definitely guided and helped and I'm always referring to them in my work.

Anyone who makes a life of what they love is a hero to me, and it's important for those people to be visible in every kind of life, every kind of love, every kind of work.

I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.

People think it's easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it's incredibly hard work. It's much easier to be hopeful.

My spirit life very much depends on my work. My work very much depends on my spirit life. And I pray every day, as part of my own ritual, to a god I believe in, not a god somebody else believes in.

I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder.

Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.

What is needed today is for all of us to work to change the world's mind about God.

When things aren't working out as you wish, be patient. Stop trying to move ahead of God. His timing is perfect. Trust Him.

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

You achieve what you believe in, look for, and work for.

We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.

Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.

I invest because I'm really a firm believer in letting the artist make their work, if you choose to work with an artist then you give them the go-ahead.

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you believe me? If you do, I've done my work.