Quotes About Belief

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

The emergent movement is creating a mushiness to the thinking patterns in Christianity today. It's like we really can't stand for anything.

It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

I look back on the early days of Free with Paul Kossoff with the most fondness of any of my bands, because I met him at a time when I was in London and very hungry, and we believed in each other.

Paul Gray - he believed in my art, and I believed in his music. Together, we decided to change the world, and that's what we did.

I think of talent as being God-given. I know that contradicts what a lot of people believe, but that's how I see it. I think the Beatles were meant to be, you know? So when I listen to Paul McCartney, I think, 'Here's the person that God gave the gift of allowing him to write 'Let It Be.'

I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

I don't even pay attention to the odds, to be honest with you.

I don't believe in paying for sex. Which is why I'll never again pay for a woman's dinner.

My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education.

I always believe that it is his hard work that pays for a film's success.

In this business, believing in your work, being patient and consistent always pays off.

I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we understand that real peace comes from the Marine Corps, not the Peace Corps.

I want a country where you can express different ideas peacefully and not be bothered and arrested unfairly for it. I want a country where you shouldn't be scared to say that you are an atheist, for example.

I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.

I was very excited, but I didn't really think I could get the work in 'Peanuts.' Still, I really, really wanted it, because I knew I could do it. And I got it.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.

I had never fought a guy before that I had put on a pedestal the way I did with Carlos Condit. I've got his walkout shirt. He's a former champion. I'm a huge fan. I doubted myself a lot of times.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

Mostly in high school, when peer pressure took its big hold on me, that's when I started getting into my faith, and that helped me out so much.