Quotes About Belief

I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every 'no' lays a 'yes' that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that.

I've crossed paths with lions. I keep going forward and leave it in God's hands.

I'm not a moral relativist, I do think at the end of the day there's right and wrong, there's good intentions, and then there's bad paths that you can go on even if you have good intentions and we believe that.

Normally I'm the type who wouldn't bail on a responsibility unless dead on the side of the road, and I believe deeply in the importance of continuing to follow our own paths.

You can legislate behavior but you cannot legislate belief. Patience is what it takes. But patience doesn't mean sitting around on your butt waiting for something to happen.

I always say that with work and patience, if you believe in your own talent, at the end, things come back; there's no doubt about it.

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!

Religion has played a big part in eliminating the nuance in humanity. People began to believe things before they knew them. It stopped people from listening and learning with the patience and love of the God they believe in.

I wrote three stories on spec because I didn't have the patience to convince people I could write.

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

As Democrats, we will never be fooled into believing that if we are patient enough, that Donald Trump could be a good president.

When you are not able to score the first goal, maybe we get nervous and don't 100% feel the confidence is there and we have to be patient.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.

My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There's a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you're doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The Bible, and especially the book of Genesis, is pretty unapologetically patriarchal.

I grew up in a very patriarchal family. And I believe that I like being a woman. I act behaving like a woman.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Without a lot of college film, a lot of people had written me off already. When the Patriots called, I was pretty happy.

Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of athletes.

Well, I don't believe in patronage.

I have to believe in my process and I know I follow a certain pattern to score runs. I have to believe that I will be getting runs if I have a certain mindset and I know I will.