Quotes About Belief

I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

Progressivism is the belief that we have too much freedom with which to make too many stupid choices.

Out of 3,500 students in my high school, I was the only openly professing Christian kid. Obviously there were challenges. 'Only old and stupid people believe.'

There are many paths to God. What really bothers me - and what I think is the height of arrogance and stupidity - is when one group believes their way is the only way. That really gets my dander up.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

You can pull off anything if you have the right attitude. Being cool is whatever you think it is. Own your style.

I just have to go out there and play the right style of game and believe I can win.

Establishing a style is important, it really is, but a lot of singers get so involved with their instrument, and more so than they do in what they're singing. I think you really have to think about what you're singing. You have to make the public believe what you're singing. And in order to do that, you have to believe it.

I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.

I love Styx as much as I could love anything in my life. I started playing in the band when I was 14 years old. You become so involved in something when you start in it that young; you're doing it purely out of love of what you're doing and a belief in it.

I hypnotized myself so in my subconscious, I believed I couldn't get hurt. And I don't mean 'believe' - I mean believe believe believe.

Whatever you determine to be true in the subconscious becomes true for you.

I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.

I learned over the years to trust that the subconscious is going to provide guidance.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and extraordinary is being asked of us as well - that we hold to an extraordinary promise about how, from moment to moment, something enters the world and enters us, after which everything is different.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

You will readily believe me when I say that on leaving my country, I little imagined that I should ever become a Baptist. I had not indeed candidly examined the subject of baptism, but I had strong prejudices against the sect, that is everywhere spoken against.

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.

Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It's hard to say whether or not you're a believer. I've been interested in that subject matter, like lots of people. Perhaps foolishly, I've allowed some of that stuff to creep into my music.