Quotes About Belief

When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.

If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

To me, God says, "I've given you this gift of grace, which means you don't earn your way to heaven. You don't work your way to heaven. You simply receive my gift."

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

It's believable because great things don't happen without hard work

Everyone who believes in freedom must work diligently for sound money, fully redeemable. Nothing else is compatible with the humanitarian goals of peace and prosperity.

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

I am not retiring until every American agrees with me, and there's some work still to be done on this.

You want to have expectations. I think it makes you work a little bit harder now, and it makes you want to prove to everyone that it wasn't just a one-year thing.

Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.

We work really hard never to get confused with what we know from what we think or hope or wish.

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

There must be a God, because I don't know how things work.

I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give.

When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.

My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.

I dream about finding an exception and finding someone who would make me believe in love and realize that it can work out.

I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in the work you need to.