Quotes About Belief

What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?

I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

The great thing about America is you can live according to your faith. If you're faith says don't use birth control then you don't use it.

The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta.

The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.

Hope is the mother of faith.

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

We just need some faith.

I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor.

Have faith in your skills, negative thoughts kill. Self-doubt will kill your dreams before others do. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

If you don't have faith, you have nothing.

Put faith in one who's had experience.

I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

Never believe in any faith younger than you are.

Without faith, without belief in something, what are we?

The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.