Quotes About Belief

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously.

While my dad is a rebel at heart, I am a conformist.

When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind of go, 'Sure. Sure you are, son.'

As a dad, it's kind of exciting to see that your son follows what you believe in so strongly.

My dad was a Buddhist when I was young. So, at a point when I begging become Catholic he was saying "no" and imparting Buddhist precepts.

My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.

I'm not afraid to fail...I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.

All people go to Allah after their death, but the happy person is the one who goes to Allah while still alive.

The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another.

I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.

Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

No one, at night, really believes he'll live forever.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.