Quotes About Belief

The minister in our church: He spoke in a way that said there was a rage inside religion.

To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?

I fling unconscious tendrils of belief, like slender green threads, across statements such as these, statements made so unequivocally, which have no tone or shadow of tentativeness. I build them into the mosaic of my world. I allow my universe to change in minute, significant ways, on the basis of things you have said to me, of my trust in you.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

If it is something that you are interested in, and it is your passion, then tell your friends, because help is the best thing. If you stay confident, it will happen.

I see my friends and family who have a passion or a dream, but it's now a dream deferred because they were never naive enough or brazen enough to say, 'Let me do this.'

My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

Do not follow anyone else's opinion of your capabilities; find for yourself what you're passionate about and chase it!

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

I want a girl who's passionate, driven - a girl who believes in herself.

Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.

I have a great belief in not doing anything unless I'm passionate about it.

When I believe in something, I'm very passionate. I don't take 'no' for an answer.

The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

I believe passionately that the notion of having to work at a marriage is baloney. Making sacrifices and being a martyr makes one hell of a bad marriage.

I passionately believe that you should start a company that you really believe in. Don't start something that you have no interest in, start something that you're passionate about.

My family were liberal with a small 'l' but passionately doers. I wanted to be a doer.

One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.

I think the term feminist is scary for women, because it means that you're extreme in some way, and I'm not extreme in any way, although I do passionately believe that a woman's role within any organisation is to assist and help other women.

There aren't any people aligned with me passionately.

I'm a firm believer that people find their own passions.

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.