Quotes About Belief

most of 'em goes to church so they'll be sure to rise in Judgment.

Ah can look through muddy water and see dry land.

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped.

He cut nine hairs out of the mole on her head for luck and went off happy

It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. However, I would not, by word or deed, attempt to deprive another of the consolation it affords. It is simply not for me. Somebody else may have my rapturous glance at the archangels. The springing of the yellow line of morning out of the misty deep of dawn is glory enough for me.

Mrs. Turner, like all other believers had built an altar to the unattainable- Caucasian characteristics for all. Her god would smite her, would hurl her from pinnacles and lose her in deserts. but she would not forsake his altars. Behind her crude words was a belief that somehow she and others through worship could attain her paradise- a heaven of straight-haired, thin-lipped, high-nose boned white seraphs.

That was the mystery and the mysteries are the chores of gods.

The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time.

Don't make God look so foolish, finding fault with everything he made.

All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped.

Buddha wasn't the man everybody made him out to be. He wasn't the type of man who poured out the belief of there's no one higher than him. He just wanted to teach his people the importance of knowledge. Kind of like Elijah Muhammad.

Sometimes it looks like God's abandoned you, but not for any reason. To make your faith grow and to see that, no matter what happens, you come out OK... It's all for your good. It's all for love, and it's all for making you a strong person.

I have this deep and abiding faith in God. But this does not mean that you have to have a religion or follow somebody.

I have deep abiding faith in God.

I'm against abortion.

God above all.

My confidence is not in man, it's in God, and so I look forward to the semi-finals with that in mind, absent of fear.

Public schoolboys are brought up to assume they should lead society, and Trotskyists know they are right about absolutely everything.

There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.

I have this absurd feeling that I can win every game with any team.

I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.

I'm not at the point of accepting it yet - but I will have to come to the point of accepting that people will doubt me forever.

There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish.

I believe there's nothing I can't accomplish.