Quotes About Belief

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

Failure and disillusionment are realities, but ideologies are made of dreams. And dreams, it would seem, do not fade easily.

Saying you have something that you don't makes it yours. Saying you don't have something you do makes it go away.

Was it wrong to say something no one believed, even if it was right? Did he have to just sit there and take it when no one agreed with him?

Prayers? You only pray when it suits you, and you already burned all the gods.

To those who accept everything, happiness. To those who resist everything, glory.

Twin Peaks was my religion. Well, Twin Peaks and Christianity. But at present, Twin Peaks was winning. I loved God, but at the moment I was more obsessed with Bob and Dale Cooper and Audrey Horne.

I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough.

When I became a vegan in 1987, in one fell swoop I extended my life expectancy and annoyed most of the people in my life—my mom most of all.

The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

You must be the change that you wish to see in the world.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.